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"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture."
Johnny Weissmuller
"The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture."
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"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."
Jerry Garcia
"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us."
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"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
David Ogilvy
"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
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"I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again."
Greg Kinnear
"I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again."
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"Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does."
Paul Samuelson
"Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does."
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"The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product."
Rob Walton
"The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product."
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"I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all."
Winona Ryder
"I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all."
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"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
Izaak Walton
"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."
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"And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth."
Steve Case
"And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth."
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"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy."
Jodie Foster
"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy."
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"I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business."
Broderick Crawford
"I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business."
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"Business is a combination of war and sport."
Andre Maurois
"Business is a combination of war and sport."
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"That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen."
Desmond Harrington
"That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen."
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"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
Victoria Beckham
"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
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"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
William Standish Knowles
"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
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"I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us."
James Daly
"I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us."
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"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
Jeff Bezos
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
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"Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers."
Gary Miller
"Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers."
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"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
Ethel Waters
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
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"I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?"
Suge Knight
"I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?"
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"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
Nia Long
"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
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"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop."
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"There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under."
James Daly
"There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under."
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"I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed."
Gabriel Byrne
"I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed."
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"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
Robin Wright Penn
"Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business."
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"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."
Harold S. Geneen
"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."
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"The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard."
James Daly
"The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard."
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"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
Erykah Badu
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."
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"Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all."
Michael Patrick Jann
"Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all."
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"In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones."
John Lee Hooker
"In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones."
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"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product."
Elon Musk
"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product."
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"If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips."
Jane Byrne
"If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips."
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"Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them."
Afrika Bambaataa
"Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them."
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"The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality."
Chris Chocola
"The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality."
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"The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians."
Robert Shea
"The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians."
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"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause."
Rose Kennedy
"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause."
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"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."
Karolina Kurkova
"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."
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"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."
Alphonsus Liguori
"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."
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"We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago."
Sanjay Kumar
"We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago."
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"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
Warren Zevon
"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
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"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
Karl Marx
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
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"That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures."
Robert Stack
"That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures."
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"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
Harry Houdini
"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
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"People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards."
Arthur Rock
"People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards."
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"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
Stanley Crouch
"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Jay Leno
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
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"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."
Richard M. Daley
"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."
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"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."
Stendhal
"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."
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"The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know."
Tony Curtis
"The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know."
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"But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever."
Richard Marx
"But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever."
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