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The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

Business, labour and civil society organisations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Kofi Annan

My advice would be: if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't
X Factor

When things have an effect on those around you, then in some ways it is your business even if it doesn't affect you directly.
Henry Green

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A Arthur

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Steve Martin

I am concerned about a society that has demonstrably lost confidence in its institutions, in the government, in the press, in the church, in the military - as well as in business.
George Cabot

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge
George Galloway

The business of government is justice.
Woodrow Wilson

Everyone tells me it's impossible. But they said that about starting
my own business. I'm not smart, but I'm totally inspired to do this.
Beri Smither

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
Jason Patric

Ecommerce is changing the world of business, and how we think about doing business. As ever the small businesses have made the most of the technology whilst the big businesses, even now, are usually very poor in the online market.
Anonymous

I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.
Jerry Yang

In the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
Eddie Bell

There are three things that you should spend you time doing: Marketing, marketing, marketing. It is the most important thing that someone growing a business should be doing. If you are not prepared to do that, then everything else is irrelevant
Emma Harrison

Every business is built on friendship.
J C Penney

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home (on his first girlfriend)
Brad Pitt

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

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
Frank Zappa

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D Rockefeller

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
J P Getty

EBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system
Pierre Omidyar

Young lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else.
Washington Irving

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.
Stuart Pearce

I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me I say, 'That's none of your business'. So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true.
Calista Flockhart

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
Harold Geneen

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

It is a dangerous business going out your front door.
J R R Tolkien

Cricket must be the only business where you can make more money in one day than you can in three.
Pat Gibson

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
Charles Dickens

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it
Owen Feltham

Leonardo DiCaprio (Quick and the Dead): 'When we see each other now, it's a very pleasant experience. It's beyond his being smart. He has something good inside of him, mate, that you can't destroy with this business. He's gone from strength to strength as an actor.'
Russell Crowe

Kissing Jimmy [Dev in Corrie] is as businesslike as serving a pint.
Jennifer James

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Robin Williams

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F Drucker

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
Franklin P Jones

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Thomas J Peters

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
Charlton Heston

To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
Alec Baldwin

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
Jim Barksdale

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business
Pierre Omidyar

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
Ruth Handler

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
Wendell Phillips

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart
John Morley

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters

The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.
Warren Buffett

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
Jennifer Love Hewitt



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