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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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The chief limiting factor for e-business is a skill shortage-not the ability to buy hardware and software-or lack of ideas or capital.
– John Patrick
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
– William Penn
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
– Samuel Pepys
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
– Samuel Pepys
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In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true -- demand for our services increases in hard times.
– Sonny Perdue
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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
– Ross Perot
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
– Tom Peters
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I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
– William Petersen
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My father said you can't make a living in birds... my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.
– Roger Tory Peterson
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
– Wendell Phillips
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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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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
– Ezra Pound
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I always say the late 60s, early 70s in American education were really exciting times to teach. The late 70s, on the other hand, were awfully dull. People tended to be quiet and repressed and all headed off to business school or something.
– Reynolds Price
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It is ironic - or perhaps hypocritical is the right word - to be passing a Small Business Bill of Rights, when in fact, our Republican friends are gutting the very programs that support small businesses.
– David E. Price
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The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
– Kerry Packer
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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.
– John H. Patterson
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Simply surviving in this business is a feat.
– Lou Diamond Phillips
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Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
– T. Boone Pickens
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I prefer to supervise the whole operations of Government myself rather than entrust the public business to subord.
– James Knox Polk
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The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
– Jonathan Potter
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
– Hal Price
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When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
– Herbert V. Prochnow
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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
– Bonnie Raitt
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Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
– Ayn Rand
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I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
– Johnnie Ray
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He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
– Lee R. Raymond
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In order to gain the tools to fully address the broad impact of business on society, economic success is indispensable.
– Lee R. Raymond
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In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
– Lee R. Raymond
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It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
– Lee R. Raymond
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The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
– Lee R. Raymond
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
– Ronald Reagan
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We are battling mighty competitors in this global race for business and jobs. Most of our strongest competitors are far away - as far away as Beijing, China. Other major contenders are right next door in New Jersey. Pennsylvania is in this fight for economic standing, and we are in it to win.
– Edward G. Rendell
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Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
– Lionel Richie
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In the beginning I took a great interest in the giant-plane. But funnily enough the gigantic machine made it clear to me that only the smallest aeroplane would be of any use for me in battle. A big aerial barge is too clumsy for fighting. Agility is needed and, after all, fighting is my business.
– Manfred von Richthofen
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Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
– Tim Robbins
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I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
– Marty Robbins
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I just think that in the big scheme of the world, the way media deals with people in show business, is that the fiction it fodders is so salivated after and so the simple truth doesn't really seem to serve much of a purpose.
– Julia Roberts
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
– Pat Roberts
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
– John D. Rockefeller
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I took the GED, and left the option open to go to school. I did go to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
– Michelle Rodriguez
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
– 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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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
– Andy Rooney
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Consumers and artists dislike the major labels. It's a terrible business. Who wants to be at war with everybody?
– Don Rose
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I've always had a passion for classic cars, so I started a locating, brokering, import and export business. Just me, a laptop and a cell phone. I'm having a lot of fun doing that, as well as listening to music, making compilations, downloading music - even of CDs that I own - because it's faster than gathering them up and ripping; certainly easier than transferring vinyl.
– Don Rose
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I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business.
– Diana Ross
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Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
– Mark Russell
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Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.
– Ken Russell
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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
– George William Russell
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Thing is, it's very easy to be righteous from a distance. It's his life. It's not my business to say what is wrong or right.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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I have been successful, and I am grateful for my success. I have had some experiences that I wish I never had had, but that would be true in any business. I cannot say sincerely that I would have chosen just this road to fortune. Perhaps I might have wished for another way. But I took the opportunity that came to me. Certainly I am an opportunist. I admit it.
– Sally Rand
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They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
– Sally Rand
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I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
– Robert Reed
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Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
– Robert Rice
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My business is hurting people.
– Sugar Ray Robinson
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Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
– James Rouse
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I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.
– Geoffrey Rush
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There are many things we must do to improve our business climate. But in the quest for prosperity, what matters most is our people.
– Bob Taft
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Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
– Bill Terry
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No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
– Bill Terry
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
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I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
– Margaret Thatcher
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We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.
– Margaret Thatcher
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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
– Hunter S. Thompson
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
– Henry David Thoreau
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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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If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
– Robert Townsend
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The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
– Pierre Trudeau
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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
– Donald Trump
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
– Ted Turner
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
– Mark Twain
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I don't want to spend so much time obsessing about myself. I love to cook and I love to eat. And yet, if I am not careful, I could be considered chubby in the film business. That's why it is great for me not to live in Hollywood. I love to go to the country where I can wear my pajamas all day long if I want.
– Liv Tyler
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
– Fran Tarkenton
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
– A. Alfred Taubman
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The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
– Lili Taylor
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People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.
– Richard Thalheimer
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One of the reasons I got into this business is because I was a jack-of-all-trades. When I wa in school, I was the singer, the dancer, member of the track team, and a cheerleader.
– Michelle Thomas
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Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
– Stewart L. Udall
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Winning in my business is everything.
– Al Unser
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Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
– Ludwig von Mises
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I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.
– Jack Valenti
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
– Bill Vaughan
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You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
– Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
– Bill Vaughn
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
– Thorstein Veblen
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I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
– Conrad Veidt
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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The United Nations has no business in our elections.
– David Vitter
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ISC remains deeply apologetic that prior versions of BIND did not properly catch the configuration error that you appear to have built your business on.
– Paul Vixie
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Business is the salt of life.
– Voltaire
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