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“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”— T. S. Eliot
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“Our favorite holding period is forever.”— Warren Buffett
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”— Peter Drucker
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“It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.”— Edward Hopper
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“I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.”— Richard Branson
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“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.”— Thomas Fuller
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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.”— Steve Jobs
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“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.”— Richard Branson
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“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”— Henry Ford
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“Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.”— Steve Jobs
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“But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.”— Steve Jobs
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“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”— Warren Buffett
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“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”— Winston Churchill
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“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”— George Washington
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“I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.”— Christopher Walken
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“Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.”— Jack Welch
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“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”— Mark Twain
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“Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.”— Julia Child
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“I want to put a ding in the universe.”— Steve Jobs
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“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”— Warren Buffett
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“How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.”— Mark Burnett
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“Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.”— Gary Hamel