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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 to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
– Gore Vidal
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
– Joan Didion
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Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
– Patti Stanger
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With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
– Tina Yothers
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Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
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Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
– Jeff Landry
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
– Pat Brown
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Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.
– Herman Cain
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Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
– William J. Clinton
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When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
– Steve Jobs
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When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
– Victor Ortiz
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When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
– Anna Chlumsky
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
– Ice T
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When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
– Mitt Romney
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
– Billie Jean King
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When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.
– Preston Manning
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
– Daniel Day Lewis
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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
– Daniel Goleman
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When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
– Ice Cube
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When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
– Steve Martin
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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
– Maya Lin
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When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
– Tim McGraw
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When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
– Calvin Klein
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When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
– Robert Kiyosaki
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When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
– Marc Andreessen
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When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
– Terri Windling
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When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.
– Jerry Seinfeld
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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
– Chuck Norris
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When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
– Elliott Erwitt
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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
– Vera Wang
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
– William Wordsworth
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When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.
– Jeff Raikes
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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
– Muhammad Yunus
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What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
– Simon Mainwaring
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
– Gary Oldman
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What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
– Courtney Love
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What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
– Chris Evans
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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
– Mario Andretti
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Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.
– Marvin Hagler
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Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
– Jennifer Garner
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Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
– Shia LaBeouf
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Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
– Diane Duane
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Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
– Christopher Walken
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
– Richard Branson
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Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
– Caroline Kennedy
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Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
– Robert Redford
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We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
– David Frum
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We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
– Rupert Murdoch
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We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
– Jerry Garcia
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We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
– Jaron Lanier
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
– Ice Cube
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We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
– Tony Scott
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We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we've been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan programs has mattered.
– Karen Mills
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We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
– Rick Perry
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
– Lawrence Eagleburger
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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
– Yahoo Serious
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We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
– Mary-Kate Olsen
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We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
– Rick Santelli
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We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
– Jeff Bezos
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We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
– Ruth Handler
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
– Samuel Adams
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We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
– Marcy Kaptur
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
– John Cage
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We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
– John O. Brennan
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We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
– Jon Bon Jovi
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Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.
– Mitt Romney
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Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
– Mike Wilson
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
– Carroll O'Connor
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
– Henry Louis Gates
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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
– James Buchan
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
– Lewis H. Lapham
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
– Jeff Bridges
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Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
– Marco Rubio
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
– Laura Dern
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
– Eminem
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Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
– Steve Daines
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Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
– David Suzuki
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
– Honore de Balzac
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Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
– Arthur Levitt
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Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
– Allen Klein
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