Business Quotes
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You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
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If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
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People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
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The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
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When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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The business and method of mysticism is love.
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Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business.
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I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.
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The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
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There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.
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Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families.
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.
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I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.
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I love show business. It's my life, honey, and I try to enjoy it.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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It means a lot to everybody outside of the business, so much that it's come to mean more to us. It's sort of an insider music thing, not really a mandate of the people. But it's nice to be in there with all of my heroes.
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When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.
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You have to be passionate about your business. If you don't love your business, you are doing a terrible disservice to your customers and clients, your team members and business partners, your family and yourself.
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I could have been born into any family. I was fortunate that I was born to an artist as extraordinary as Picasso, and Picasso turned out to be the family business.
