962 private quotes tagged business

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

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“Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.” — Dalton Trumbo

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“I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.” — David Byrne

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“And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.” — Alphonso Jackson

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“Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.” — Ric Flair

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“In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.” — Sylvester Stallone

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“The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.” — Suze Orman

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“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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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 mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.” — Pierre Trudeau

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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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“After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.” — Nelson Piquet

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“I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.” — George Lucas

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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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“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” — Tom Robbins

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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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“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.” — Benjamin Jowett

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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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“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.” — William Congreve

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“You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.” — Dolly Parton

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“The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.” — Rupert Murdoch

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