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"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
Samuel Adams
"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
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"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."
Carroll O'Connor
"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."
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"I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill."
Patty Duke
"I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill."
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"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."
Carroll O'Connor
"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."
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"Government is not show business."
Warren Beatty
"Government is not show business."
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"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
Morgan Freeman
"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."
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"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."
Harvey S. Firestone
"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with."
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"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
John Morley
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
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"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts."
Elvis Presley
"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts."
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"I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone."
Stephanie Mills
"I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone."
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"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
Elvis Presley
"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
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"My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that."
Robin Yount
"My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that."
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"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
Mark Udall
"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
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"All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life."
Count Basie
"All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life."
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"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
Brian Clough
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
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"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them."
Michael Steele
"Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them."
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"Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?"
Bobby Darin
"Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?"
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"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."
Jane Byrne
"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."
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"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."
Karl Liebknecht
"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."
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"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
Jesse Ventura
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
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"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."
Jeffrey Katzenberg
"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."
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"This is one hell of a business I picked to be in."
Taylor Dayne
"This is one hell of a business I picked to be in."
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"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."
Donald Trump
"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."
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"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."
Erma Bombeck
"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."
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"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."
Shawn Fanning
"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."
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"The mercantile business did not suit me."
John James Audubon
"The mercantile business did not suit me."
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"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things."
Minnie Pearl
"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things."
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"I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress."
Amber Tamblyn
"I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress."
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"It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game."
Mats Sundin
"It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game."
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"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."
Jim Rohn
"We get paid for bringing value to the market place."
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"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda."
Anita Roddick
"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda."
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"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."
Larry King
"Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide."
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"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."
Michael LeBoeuf
"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."
David Letterman
"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."
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"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."
Karl Marx
"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."
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"Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does."
Paul Samuelson
"Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does."
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"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."
Lee Iacocca
"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."
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"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
Bernard Liautaud
"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
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"Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show."
Gary Vaynerchuk
"Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show."
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"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."
Mark Zuckerberg
"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers."
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"That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen."
Desmond Harrington
"That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen."
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"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."
Warren Buffett
"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."
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"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet."
R. A. Salvatore
"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet."
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"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
William Graham Sumner
"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
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"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom."
Robert Walpole
"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom."
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"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business."
Trevor Rabin
"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business."
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"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."
Esther Dyson
"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."
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"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate."
Christie Hefner
"Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate."
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"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States."
Chris Chocola
"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States."
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"When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!"
Paul Prudhomme
"When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!"
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