Business Quotes
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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You don’t need to come up with a game-changing solution to every problem. If you develop tunnel-vision on each and every hiccup, you will inevitably lose sight of the big picture and not be able to sustain your business. Those who think more in terms of turning a negative outcome into a positive potential have a much better chance of riding out the rough times.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.
Wes Welker
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Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Carroll O'Connor
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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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If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
Blackie Sherrod
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
Haruki Murakami
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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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He was all heart. He had the passion and it takes that passion to make something of yourself in the restaurant business.
Bob Wright
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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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For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"
George Will
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Haste in every business brings failures.
Herodotus
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Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
Marilyn Monroe
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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're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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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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I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.
Rick Smolan
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If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.
Ernest Holmes
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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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One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.
Chris Gardner
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I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Hillary Clinton