962 private quotes tagged business

“I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.” — Tom Colicchio

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“What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.” — Dennis Miller

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“Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.” — Lindsey Graham

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“I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!” — Robert Duvall

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“Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.” — Clement Mok

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“The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.” — John Sununu

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“The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.” — John Sununu

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“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.” — Eddie Van Halen

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“A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.” — Edward Sapir

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“We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.” — Ice Cube

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“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.” — Jason Aldean

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“If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.” — Charlie Kaufman

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“Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.” — John Sununu

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“In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.” — Jason Aldean

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“I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.” — Curt Schilling

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“I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.” — Catherine the Great

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“And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.” — Elton John

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“As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.” — Mia Wasikowska

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“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.” — Emma Goldman

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“I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.” — Manuel Puig

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“I find the business world hard.” — Haile Gebrselassie

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“Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.” — Ian MacKaye

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“The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.” — Roger Goodell

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“It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.” — Josh Radnor

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