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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
– Andrew Jackson
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The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.
– Billy Corgan
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
– A. N. Wilson
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The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
– Joel Silver
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The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
– Jeff Bezos
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The comic book world is a tough business.
– Shia LaBeouf
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The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
– Suze Orman
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The career stuff is for business people.
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
– Danica McKellar
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The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.
– Kevin Bacon
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The business of America is business.
– Calvin Coolidge
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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
– Tony Snow
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
– T. S. Eliot
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The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.
– David Lynch
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The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
– Richard Grimes
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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.
– Elisabeth Rohm
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
– Taylor Swift
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
– Ronald Reagan
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The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
– Russell Baker
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
– John Ruskin
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The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
– John Sununu
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The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.
– Paul Gillmor
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The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.
– Herman Cain
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
– Steven Morrissey
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That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
– Benny Hill
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That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.
– Matt Damon
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
– H. Jackson Browne
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That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
– Mitt Romney
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
– Danica McKellar
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Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
– Shelley Morrison
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
– Hans Eysenck
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Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.
– Mark Cuban
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
– Daniel Craig
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
– Sir Walter Scott
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Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
– Tracy Morgan
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Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
– Loretta Lynn
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Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
– Rick Perry
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Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.
– Sharon Stone
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Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
– Jewel Kilcher
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Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman' Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
– Tom Hiddleston
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So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
– Donald Trump
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So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
– Gerald Scarfe
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.
– Sanford I. Weill
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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.
– Anita Roddick
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
– Elon Musk
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Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
– Meryl Streep
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Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
– Don Rickles
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
– Jack Welch
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Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.
– Thomas Frank
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Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.
– Hugh Laurie
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Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.
– Michael Steele
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Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
– Anthea Turner
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Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
– John Podhoretz
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Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.
– Thomas Friedman
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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
– Tom Peters
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
– Madeleine Albright
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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
– James Buchan
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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
– Bill Cosby
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
– Carlos Ghosn
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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
– James Buchan
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Professional sports is a business.
– Lynn Swann
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Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.
– Marissa Mayer
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Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
– Ron Jaworski
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
– Paul Valery
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Politics is just show business for ugly people.
– Jay Leno
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
– Laura Bush
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Politics is a highly tribal business.
– Nick Clegg
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Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
– will.i.am
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Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
– John Sununu
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
– Huston Smith
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Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.
– Dhani Harrison
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Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.
– Cate Blanchett
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Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
– Marc Andreessen
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Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
– Dan Rather
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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
– Jerome K. Jerome
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People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.
– Lori Greiner
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People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.
– Terry McAuliffe
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People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
– Don Johnson
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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
– Tori Amos
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People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.
– Tori Spelling
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
– Sissy Spacek
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Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
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Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
– Judy Biggert
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
– Karl Rove
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Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
– Marc Andreessen
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
– David Ogilvy
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Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
– Mike McCready
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
– Jesse Ventura
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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
– Richard Branson
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One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
– Rupert Murdoch
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One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
– Sean Hannity
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One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
– Carroll O'Connor
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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.
– Sophia Bush
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