Business Quotes
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Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
Abraham Zaleznik
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Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
George Arundale
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Douglas Coupland
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So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
Richard M. Daley
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He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
Edward Joseph Young
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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius
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As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Loretta Young
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I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realized that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. It's a shame they've destroyed my love for the game.
Richie Allen
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You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
Paul Graham
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I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
Celine Dion
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I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.
Neelie Kroes
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I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.
Nic Pizzolatto
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In my opinion, life is more important than show business.
Penny Marshall
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I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
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Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is...Are we focusing on what really matters?
Mac Anderson
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I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
Paul Hogan
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If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO's perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all times.
John T. Chambers
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
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We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
Mary-Kate Olsen
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To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The first thing I thought when I finished Ernest Cline's 'Ready Player One' was, 'My God, it's the grown-up's 'Harry Potter.'' Now this is from a mega 'HP' fan, so I mean business, here.
Rebecca Serle
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Before the whole music business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
Arthur Fogel
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
John Searle
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Many business owners dream of having their product or service endorsed by a global celebrity. But instead of trying to get a superstar to support your business, try seeking out a local celebrity instead.
Lewis Howes