962 private quotes tagged business

“In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.” — Mehmet Oz

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“The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.” — Jeremy Renner

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“In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.” — Ted Allen

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“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.” — Jeffrey Kluger

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“I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.” — Dick Wolf

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“Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.” — Hugh Laurie

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“When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.” — Ice T

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“Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.” — Caroline Kennedy

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“Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.” — Joe Manchin

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“I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.” — Jeremy Renner

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“Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.” — Andrew Mason

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“If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.” — Evan Bayh

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“I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.” — Lev Grossman

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“The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.” — Alton Brown

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“It's show business. No show, no business.” — Dick Wolf

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“My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.” — Harry Houdini

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“A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.” — Dick Cheney

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“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!” — Don Johnson

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“I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.” — James Dyson

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“I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.” — Erykah Badu

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“In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.” — John Legend

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“I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.” — Joan Collins

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