962 private quotes tagged business

“I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.” — Barry Goldwater

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“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.” — William S. Burroughs

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“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.” — Billy Graham

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“Carpe per diem - seize the check.” — Robin Williams

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“A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.” — Honore de Balzac

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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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“There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.” — Tupac Shakur

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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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“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.” — Michael Jackson

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“I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.” — Johnny Depp

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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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“Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.” — Josie Maran

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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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“I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.” — Will Smith

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“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.” — Fred Allen

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“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.” — Charlie Sheen

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“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.” — Tom Peters

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“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.” — Al Lopez

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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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“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.” — Morgan Freeman

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“To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.” — Aristotle Onassis

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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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“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.” — Max de Pree

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