Business Quotes
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As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
Brian Tracy
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The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.
Charles Dickens
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Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.
James Costos
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It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".
Lauren Graham
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I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.
Marc Benioff
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Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.
Chen Guangbiao
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The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.
Charles J. Shields
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If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.
Confucius
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
Richard Marx
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It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?
Kevin McKidd
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In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
Jeff Raikes
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I think that my main business is as a news person.
Mary Pilon
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One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.
Charles Frazier
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The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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Government is not show business.
Warren Beatty
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I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.
Diana Ross
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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
Bruce Sterling
