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Business Quotes


"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."


"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."


"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself."


"Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country."


"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."


"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."


"I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?"


"I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!"


"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."


"I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years."


"China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers."


"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."


"I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble."


"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state."


"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."


"I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."


"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."


"Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business."


"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."


"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop."


"Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business."


"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit."


"If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not."


"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."


"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."


"Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend."


"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."


"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."


"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."


"Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit in you? How helpful and creative are you in solving challenges? Have you attained communication and negotiation excellence status? Can you effectively market yourself and your service/product? How effective are you at selling your vision? The answers will determine how far your influence will go."


"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."


"A man should never neglect his family for business."
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