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Business Quotes



"If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long."


"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."


"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."


"We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia."


"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."


"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."


"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."


"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."


"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."



"We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller."


"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again."


"I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life."


"That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity."



"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."


"The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men."


"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create."


"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."


"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."



"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business."


"We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!"


"In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits."


"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."


"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."


"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."


"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."


"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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