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Business Quotes


"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."


"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."


"In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks."


"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."


"When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall."


"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."


"So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community."


"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."


"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."


"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."


"I'm in this business because I despise honest labor."


"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."


"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."


"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."


"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."


"Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer."


"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."


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



"Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon."


"It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand."


"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."


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


"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."


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


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


"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."


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


"Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it."


"Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect."
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