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Business Quotes
"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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"All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good."
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"Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position."
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"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."
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"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."
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"We're all somebody's prospect, we're all somebody's customer."
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"Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city."
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"We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia."
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"Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied."
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"This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula."
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"I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten."
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"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
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"I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times."
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"Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value."
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"We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us."
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"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."
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"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture."
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"If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless."
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"I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am."
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"Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers."
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"In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star."
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"That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams."
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"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in."
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"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."
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"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
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"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."
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"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
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"The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done."
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"We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses."
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"I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business."
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"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
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"Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason."
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"I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business."
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"The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials."
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"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."
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"Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has."
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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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