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“I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.”— Mark Cuban
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“I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.”— Christopher Walken
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“The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.”— Russell Baker
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“My home has always been show business.”— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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“I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.”— Dave Chappelle
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“I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.”— V. S. Naipaul
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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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“The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.”— Tom Hanks
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“Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.”— Anita Brookner
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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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“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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“There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'”— Muhammad Yunus
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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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“Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.”— Peter Lynch
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“The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.”— Joe Baca
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“I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.”— Sally Kirkland
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“The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.”— Jimmy Buffett
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“I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.”— Betty White
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“Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.”— Venus Williams
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“I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.”— Betty White
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“I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.”— Betty White
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“The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.”— Elisabeth Rohm
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“America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.”— Al Gore
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“I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.”— Betty White
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“In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.”— Brett Favre