Abraham Lincoln Quotes

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

Abraham Lincoln

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• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

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• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

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• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

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• We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

  

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• If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

  

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• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

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• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

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• I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

  

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• You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

  

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• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

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• I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.

  

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• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

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• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  

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• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

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• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

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• Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

  

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• Punjab is central to our business strategy, and we are an active partner in the state's growth.

  

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• We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

  

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• The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Civilization
  • Tragedy