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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
– Rose Kennedy
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
– Charles F. Kettering
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
– Victor Kiam
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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
– Victor Kiam
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
– Michael Korda
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Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
– Milan Kundera
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Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
– Mitchell Kapor
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
– Mary Kay
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
– Fran Lebowitz
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People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
– Sinclair Lewis
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
– Abraham Lincoln
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
– Michael Leboeuf
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What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
– Blaine Lee
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Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
– Peter Lynch
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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
– Orison Swett Marden
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
– Don Marquis
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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
– Thurgood Marshall
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
– Steve Martin
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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
– Steve Martin
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
– Willie Mays
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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
– Marshall McLuhan
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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
– George Michael
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
– Margaret Mitchell
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
– Ian MacKaye
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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
– Scott McNealy
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I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
– Ralph Nader
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
– Flannery O'Connor
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The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
– David M. Ogilvy
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
– Blaise Pascal
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I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.
– Ron Perlman
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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
– Ross Perot
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Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
– Ross Perot
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Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
– Pablo Picasso
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
– Alexander Pope
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
– Alexander Pope
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Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
– Colin Powell
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Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
– Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
– Grace Paley
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
– Will Rogers
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
– Will Rogers
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
– Will Rogers
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
– Margaret Thatcher
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
– Uma Thurman
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To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
– Alvin Toffler
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
– Pierre Trudeau
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
– Ted Turner
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My son is now an entrepreneur. That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
– Ted Turner
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
– Paul Tournier
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What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
– Paul A. Volcker
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Business is the salt of life.
– Voltaire
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
– William Arthur Ward
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Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
– Andy Warhol
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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
– Thomas J. Watson
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Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
– Thomas J. Watson
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
– Jack Welch
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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
– Arthur Wellesley
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Carpe per diem - seize the check.
– Robin Williams
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I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
– Tiger Woods
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
– William Wordsworth
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
– Meg Whitman
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
– William Butler Yeats
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As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
– Loretta Young
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I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
– Loretta Young
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
– Zig Ziglar
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
– A. C. Benson
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And while the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
– Andrew Carnegie
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
– Michael Konda
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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
– Colonel Harland Sanders
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
– Warren Buffett
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
– Thomas Carlyle
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
– Bette Davis
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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
– David M. Ogilvy
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I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
– Britney Spears
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.
– Justin Bieber
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You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
– Alan Alda
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You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
– Rod Stewart
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You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.
– Mitt Romney
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You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
– Daniel Craig
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You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
– Dolly Parton
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
– Carly Fiorina
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You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.
– Marco Rubio
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You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
– James Sinegal
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
– Dick Gregory
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You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
– Rocco DiSpirito
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You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
– Jim Cantalupo
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You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.
– Miranda Lambert
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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
– William Hague
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
– Harold S. Geneen
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You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.
– Loretta Lynn
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You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.
– Anthony Anderson
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You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
– will.i.am
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You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.
– Charlize Theron
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
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You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
– William Shatner
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