Business Quotes
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I was a simple kid who was thrown into the wonderful world of show business. I've loved every moment. These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version - but only if it’s funnier.
Debbie Reynolds
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Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
Xaviera Hollander
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I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
John Wooden
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I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.
Anne Taintor
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You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
Charlene Tilton
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It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.
Adrian Grenier
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Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.
Edward Bernays
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The single greatest thing about the contemporary music business is that it’s now easier than ever to get started.
Nic Offer
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The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.
Cynthia Weil
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We receive a lot of complaints about skateboarders, ... Last week, I received a complaint from a business owner who said he had paid out $1,200 in repairs because of skateboarders.
Steve Farmer The Amboy Dukes
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Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.
Yvon Chouinard
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Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.
Jonathan Kozol
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Engineers start with technology and look for a use for it; business people start with a business proposition and then look for the technology and the people. Designers start with people, coming towards a solution from the point of view of people.
Ellen Lupton
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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Brian Tracy
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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.
Anthony Davis
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I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
Brent Spiner
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These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.
Bruce Rauner
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Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.
Kevin Nash
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It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
Ben McKenzie
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You have to have a business model you believe in and like.
Brian L. Roberts
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Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it's just about as hard to do business there as it is in China.
Jon Feltheimer
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
Alan Mulally
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My teeth, my car, my vagina, my business.
Kelly Osbourne