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Business Quotes
"It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do."
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"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."
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"That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?"
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"I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice."
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"What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it."
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"When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun."
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"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things."
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"Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation."
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"And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business."
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"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."
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"Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business."
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"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."
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"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."
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"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."
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"Of course in show business there are two ways to play it and I am not politically correct so I am not going to get endorsements or anything like that."
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"It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam."
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"It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle."
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"The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality."
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"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
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"I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot."
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"I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'"
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"If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face."
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"According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third."
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"Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman."
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"Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded."
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"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
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"We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago."
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"One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all."
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"They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production."
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"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage."
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"The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices."
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"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
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"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."
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"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations."
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