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Business is in itself a power.
– Garet Garrett
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
– William Feather
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Business can be a source of progressive change.
– Jerry Greenfield
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Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
– Peter Singer
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Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
– Mitt Romney
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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
– Carroll O'Connor
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Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
– Michael Porter
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
– Julia Child
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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.
– Emma Roberts
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
– Andy Warhol
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Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.
– Tom Bosley
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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
– Paul Ryan
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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
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Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
– John Sununu
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Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
– Marco Rubio
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At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
– John Legend
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At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.
– Hugh Jackman
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At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
– Bill Kreutzmann
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At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
– Keith Olbermann
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At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.
– Gerard Arpey
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At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
– Amar Bose
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As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
– Thomas Frank
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As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
– Morgan Freeman
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As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
– Ron Wyden
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As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.
– Niklas Zennstrom
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As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
– Mia Wasikowska
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As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
– Simon Mainwaring
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As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.
– Tim Scott
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As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
– Bernie Sanders
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As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
– Rocco DiSpirito
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
– David Byrne
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Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
– Harry Seidler
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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
– Richard Rogers
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Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
– Russell Baker
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
– Hank Ketcham
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Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'
– Andy Cohen
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Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
– Franklin P. Jones
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Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
– Carly Fiorina
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And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
– Alphonso Jackson
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And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
– Shirley Manson
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And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
– Tom Hanks
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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
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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
– Elton John
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And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.
– Timothy Geithner
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And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
– Mitt Romney
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Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
– Marco Rubio
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
– Barry Goldwater
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America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
– Al Gore
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Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
– Michael Sheen
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Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
– William Shatner
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
– Wayne White
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All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.
– Anita Roddick
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All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.
– Nick Lowe
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All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
– Venus Williams
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All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.
– Steve Sabol
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All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
– Graham Kerr
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
– Eddie Bernice Johnson
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.
– Dee Dee Myers
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After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
– Nelson Piquet
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
– Calvin Coolidge
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After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
– Jim Barksdale
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
– Billy Sunday
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After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
– Mitch McConnell
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After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
– Tori Amos
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After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
– Wes Bentley
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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
– Robert Sternberg
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According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
– Kit Bond
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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
– Arthur C. Nielsen
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Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
– Mel Gibson
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A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
– Loretta Lynn
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
– Jack Kevorkian
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A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.
– Jack Welch
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
– B. C. Forbes
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A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.
– Martin Feldstein
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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
– Norman Ralph Augustine
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A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
– James Cash Penney
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
– J. Paul Getty
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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
– Charles M. Schwab
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A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.
– Jon Meacham
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A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.
– Loretta Lynn
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A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'
– Chloe Moretz
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A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
– Elvis Presley
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
– Ann Bancroft
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A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
– Lee Iacocca
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
– Honore de Balzac
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A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.
– Edward Sapir
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A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'
– Tom Colicchio
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A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
– Marvin Bower
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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
– Amber Tamblyn
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
– B. C. Forbes
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A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.
– Donny Osmond
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'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.
– Tommy Davidson
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'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
– Bo Derek
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A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
– James Cook
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It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
– James Cook
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Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
– James Cook
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