Business Quotes
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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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.
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We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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When you get a song placed with two of the top stars in the world, like Rihanna and Eminem, especially as a new writer, they're gonna take a huge chunk of your publishing. That's just the way the business is. I'm not complaining.
