Business Quotes
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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
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It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.
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Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.
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It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
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We will probably always be in business together.
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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.
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The business with high ethical standards has three primary advantages over competitors whose standards are lower:
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The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.
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In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
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I've always declined to speak about things I don't think are anybody's business, and what I always get from the interviewers is, 'Well, you know, we have to ask those things.' I say, 'Well, maybe you do, but I don't have to answer them.'
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If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.
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The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
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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.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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Everyone has the right to love and worship whoever and whatever they want to. It's nobody's business but theirs. We are not the ones to judge that.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.
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My having HIV has no bearing on my business.
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I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.
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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
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I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.
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In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
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In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
