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People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
– Don Johnson
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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
– Tori Amos
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People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.
– Tori Spelling
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
– Karl Rove
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Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
– Marc Andreessen
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
– David Ogilvy
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
– Jesse Ventura
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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
– Richard Branson
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One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
– Rupert Murdoch
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One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
– Carroll O'Connor
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Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.
– Sophia Bush
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Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.
– Rick Perry
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Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
– Jeff Bridges
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Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.
– John Sununu
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Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
– William Feather
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Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.
– Ric Flair
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
– J. K. Rowling
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
– Samuel Beckett
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No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
– Jim Valvano
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
– Florence Scovel Shinn
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
– Marco Rubio
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Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.
– Marc Andreessen
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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
– Carter G. Woodson
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My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.
– Blake Lively
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
– Tony Blair
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
– Sara Blakely
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
– Harry Houdini
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
– Anthony Hopkins
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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
– Barbara Corcoran
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My home has always been show business.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
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My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.
– Nicki Minaj
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My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
– Alice Cooper
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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
– Woodrow Wilson
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
– Kim Cattrall
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.
– John Cleese
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My business doesn't keep me warm at night.
– Bethenny Frankel
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My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
– Chuck Grassley
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My business is to prevent the future.
– Ray Bradbury
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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
– Thomas Huxley
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.
– Herman Cain
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Music and the music business are two different things.
– Erykah Badu
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Movies are an expensive business.
– Albert Brooks
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Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.
– Andrew Mason
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
– Doug Coupland
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Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
– Helena Bonham Carter
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Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
– Rupert Murdoch
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Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
– Ayrton Senna
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Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
– Paul Ryan
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Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
– Steve Jobs
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McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
– Dave Eggers
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Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.
– Melissa Bean
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Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
– Stephen Fry
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Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
– Erykah Badu
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
– Stendhal
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
– Venus Williams
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Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
– Julia Roberts
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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
– Francis Ford Coppola
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
– Ralph Nader
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Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.
– Rod Stewart
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Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
– Ron Wyden
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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
– Anita Brookner
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Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
– Herbert Hoover
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
– Anna Chlumsky
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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
– Plato
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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
– Edward Norton
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Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
– Twyla Tharp
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Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
– Bruce Barton
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It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.
– Hulk Hogan
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It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
– Edward Hopper
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It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
– Barack Obama
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It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.
– Sienna Miller
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It's show business. No show, no business.
– Dick Wolf
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It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
– Dick Cheney
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It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
– Nicki Minaj
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It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
– Chloe Sevigny
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It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.
– Jeffrey Kluger
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It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
– Christina Aguilera
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It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
– Emily Procter
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It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.
– Jennifer Lopez
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It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
– Donny Osmond
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It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
– Rupert Murdoch
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It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.
– Josh Radnor
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
– Romain Rolland
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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
– Dolley Madison
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
– Adam Smith
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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
– Herbert Hoover
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
– Hedy Lamarr
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
– Aristotle
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
– Gertrude Stein
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It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.
– Christina Aguilera
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Interior design is a business of trust.
– Venus Williams
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Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
– Peter Singer
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Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.
– Simon Mainwaring
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