962 private quotes tagged business

“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.” — Stephen Covey

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“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” — Paul Valery

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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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“Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.” — Mitchell Kapor

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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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“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.” — Rod Blagojevich

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“Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.” — Evan Esar

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“There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.” — Joseph Addison

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“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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“So little done, so much to do.” — Cecil Rhodes

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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!” — Coco Chanel

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“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!” — O. Henry

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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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“I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.” — Dolly Parton

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“That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.” — Benny Hill

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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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“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.” — Gilbert Parker

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“In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.” — Bette Davis

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“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.” — Washington Irving

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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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“Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.” — Shelley Morrison

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“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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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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“I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.” — Bill Rancic

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“There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.” — Rush Limbaugh

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