Business Quotes
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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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We believe responsible business can be profitable business
Stuart Rose
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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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Haste in every business brings failures.
Herodotus
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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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Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
Catherine DeVrye
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I've had fans and friends in the business say, 'Oh man, you've made it.' I still don't feel like I've made it. I still feel like I'm as good as my last show, as good as my last single.
Dierks Bentley
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
Paul Craig Roberts
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I have invested at least 20 years in business and my own reputation. I'm excited to come into public service, because I think I have something to offer and to contribute. In no way will I put myself in a position of undoing what's taken 20 years to build.
Nigel S. Wright
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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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Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
George Will
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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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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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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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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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It's the reality of our business.
Dennis Franchione
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I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit the animal world to a share in the faculty of reason. It is the cabinet makers who construct a universe of automatons.
Richard Jefferies
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As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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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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Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.
Bob Burg
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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