Business Quotes
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There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
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In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whose your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner...
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Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.
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Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
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I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
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But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?
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Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.
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You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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There’s an old and honored tradition in exploration literature that you don’t air your dirty laundry in print. Whatever bickering, name-calling, grudge nursing, and dark funks really took place on the expedition, they’re nobody else’s business.
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Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
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We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
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People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
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The government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.
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It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
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Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.
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A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.
