Business Quotes
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I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.
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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.
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I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
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There's risk no matter which way you go in this business.
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I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden.
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The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
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I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
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In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it.
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[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.
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My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.
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Succeeding in business is not just about making money.
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The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
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If Donald Trump's main claim to be president of the United States is your business, then I think we should talk about that.
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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.
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I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
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The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.
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As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly.
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Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
