Business Quotes
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I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.
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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
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The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.
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I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
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I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.
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The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.
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Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.
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I don't think I should ask my kids to inherit my business, because they can't start where I did: I was from the street. I'm a very different make of person. I've been a fighter all my life.
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It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
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I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.
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So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
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My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
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We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
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Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.
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I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.
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I know how big business works. I don't trust it.
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We aspire to be a top performer in every area of our business, and that includes leading in the communities where our employees and their families live and work.
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We would rather have our employees running our business.
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If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.
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My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.
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If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
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The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.
