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"Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others."
David Brainerd
"Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others."
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"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long."
Skitch Henderson
"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long."
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"Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign."
Andrew Lloyd Webber
"Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign."
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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."
Meg Whitman
"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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"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business."
Ray Kroc
"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business."
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"I believe in the Wal-Mart school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it."
Garth Brooks
"I believe in the Wal-Mart school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it."
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"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it."
Judd Nelson
"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it."
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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."
Ingvar Kamprad
"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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"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less."
Meg Whitman
"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less."
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"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet."
James Daly
"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet."
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"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
Janice Dickinson
"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
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"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
Elon Musk
"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
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"The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business's strategic planning."
Pearl Zhu
"The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business's strategic planning."
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"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
Karl Marx
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
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"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."
Saul Bellow
"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."
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"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA."
Peter Gabriel
"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA."
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"Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it."
Pierce Brosnan
"Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it."
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"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."
Baltasar Gracian
"To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else."
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"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."
Paul Graham
"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."
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"The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe."
Simon Sinek
"The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe."
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"We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals."
Mary-Kate Olsen
"We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals."
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"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."
Katharine Hepburn
"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."
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"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up."
Cameron Diaz
"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up."
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"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."
Jessamyn West
"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."
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"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."
Robert Iger
"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."
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"You have to be a star to be in this business."
Jenifer Lewis
"You have to be a star to be in this business."
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"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again."
Nikki Giovanni
"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again."
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"I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful."
Eddie Murphy
"I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful."
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"I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life."
Dick Schaap
"I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life."
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"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."
Christy Romano
"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."
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"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."
Theodore Parker
"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."
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"The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men."
Andy Rooney
"The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men."
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"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day."
Johnny Carson
"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day."
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"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."
David Ogilvy
"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."
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"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
Thurgood Marshall
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
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"I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective."
Major Owens
"I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective."
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"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
W. Edwards Deming
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
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"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."
Isaac Asimov
"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."
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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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"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
Richard Curtis
"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"
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"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."
Lee Iacocca
"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."
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"I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business."
Ernie Banks
"I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business."
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"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."
Michael Porter
"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."
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"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."
Clara Barton
"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."
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"There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of."
Wentworth Miller
"There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of."
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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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"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
Arthur Rock
"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
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"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."
Diana Ross
"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."
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"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it."
Jennifer Garner
"Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it."
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
Henry Ford
"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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