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"Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city."
Harold Washington
"Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city."
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"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base."
Gavin Newsom
"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base."
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"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."
Hunter Tylo
"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."
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"The business of America is business."
Calvin Coolidge
"The business of America is business."
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"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."
Rebecca H. Davis
"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."
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"And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business."
Shaquille O'Neal
"And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business."
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"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you."
Nuno Bettencourt
"When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you."
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"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
Martin Mull
"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
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"We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel."
Lakshmi Mittal
"We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel."
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"My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."
Michael Gerber
"My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."
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"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business."
Eartha Kitt
"When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business."
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"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
Mark Zuckerberg
"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
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"I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business."
Wanda Sykes
"I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business."
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"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
Thorstein Veblen
"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
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"Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether."
Michael Newdow
"Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether."
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"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give."
Catherine Zeta-Jones
"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give."
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"Music and the music business are two different things."
Erykah Badu
"Music and the music business are two different things."
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"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."
Kristin Hersh
"I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned."
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"Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business."
Scott McCallum
"Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business."
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"It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting."
Matthew Sweet
"It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting."
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"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
Morgan Freeman
"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
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"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."
Allen Klein
"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."
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"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion."
Ernie Harwell
"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion."
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"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children."
Peter Brimelow
"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children."
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"If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order."
Mark Lloyd
"If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order."
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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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"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change."
Tim O'Reilly
"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change."
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"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing."
James Earl Jones
"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing."
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"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
Jane Haddam
"My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me."
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"LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission."
Satya Nadella
"LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission."
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"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
James Cameron
"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
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"On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married."
Scott Bakula
"On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married."
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"I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded."
Kristen Bell
"I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded."
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"We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business."
Rick Perry
"We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business."
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"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."
Jerry Pournelle
"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."
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"Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity."
Guy Laliberte
"Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity."
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"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
Dennis Quaid
"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
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"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
Bruce Barton
"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
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"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
Mel Brooks
"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
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"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."
William Whipple
"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."
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"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
Philip Johnson
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."
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"Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business."
Washington Irving
"Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business."
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"As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet."
Sue Kelly
"As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet."
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"One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act."
Roger Wicker
"One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act."
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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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"From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect."
Pearl Zhu
"From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect."
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"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
Billy Bragg
"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
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"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."
Donald Trump
"I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business."
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"The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business's strategic planning."
Pearl Zhu
"The board should frequently brainstorm IT impact on the business and leverage technological vision to the business's strategic planning."
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"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
Christiane Amanpour
"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
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