Business Quotes
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'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business.
Joe Johnston
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It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all.
Gerard J Tellis
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I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.
Cilla Black
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens
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Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
Chuck Barris
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It's not your business to decide if a woman you love should, or should not, marry you. It's her business. Tell her all about yourself and leave the decision to her. God knows it's trouble enough having to make one's own decisions in life without having to make other people's too.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
Jeff Bezos
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It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.
Jordan Michael Houston
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I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.
Cory Monteith
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Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.
Eric Lefkofsky
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When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
Charles Duhigg
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How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.
B. C. Forbes
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The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.
Lynda Resnick
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The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.
Abraham Lincoln
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The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
Darryl Pinckney
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It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.
Lee Unkrich
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I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.
Martin Luther
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I've always learned in show business: you take the job.
Margo Martindale
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer
C. S. Lewis
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
Edward R. Murrow
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A lot of my friends were retiring from the newspaper business, and the newspaper pensions are not enormous.
John Sandford
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London is like my second home. I've still got friends there from school and from when I first started in the modelling business - people such as Karen Elson, Jasmine Guinness, Jade Parfitt.
Alek Wek
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I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known.
Twinkle Khanna