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Business Quotes


"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."


"So we have a commitment to the business and to its people."


"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."


"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."


"We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life."


"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well."


"Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone."


"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business."


"I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business."


"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."


"The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting."


"I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got."


"I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery."


"The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in."


"Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable."


"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime."


"Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that."


"I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over."


"However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions."


"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."


"Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process."


"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."


"If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business."


"For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes."


"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."


"You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it."


"The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did."


"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."


"I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people."


"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is."



"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."



"In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again."
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