Business Quotes
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
Huston Smith
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My business is hurting people.
Sugar Ray Robinson
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It's time for the IRA to go out of business.
Mitchell Reiss
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The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.
Stuart Wilde
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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hunting is doing business with animals.
Carl Eckart
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The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.
Ethel Wilson
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Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.
Eddie Griffin
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We want to make sure our student-athletes have a good experience and it recognizes what took place this fall. But we want to make sure we operate as a business would operate and we operate in the black.
Eric Hyman
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All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.
Charles Gates, Jr.
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Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail.
George W. Plunkitt
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The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
Elisabeth Elliot
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When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
Michael Douglas
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I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.
Mike Scully
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We believe responsible business can be profitable business
Stuart Rose
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
Seth Godin
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Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
Marilyn Monroe
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The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
Elvis Costello
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Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas
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I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
Winona Ryder
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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
Norm MacDonald
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Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.
George Formby