Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business.
Richard DaleyIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheYoung lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else.
Washington IrvingWhen 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 BuffettThere's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David LettermanAll of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel ButlerWe mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai StevensonMost of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.
Helena Bonham CarterIn the publishing business you have to learn to greet failure with the same handshake as you would success.
Eddie BellWe as consumers will not tolerate a poor product or service, then why do we allow and in fact manage and lead a business that allows a less than tolerable product or service to exist?
Jonathon J SalomonThe base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
Ty CobbFrom politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Mary LandrieuBusiness is not financial science, it's about trading... buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
Anita RoddickI decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley BasseyThe only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes
Daniel R ScrogginAll animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel ButlerNo employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett MardenFootball's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas?
Queen Elizabeth IIModern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert FrostIt has always been my ambition to see the group deliver a full year of profitability. Now this has been achieved, it is the right time for the business and the right time for me to explore other challenges [on leaving lastminute]
Martha Lane FoxI’m a businesswoman in public and a total slut in the bedroom.
Jenny McCarthyPeople tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
Sarah Michelle GellarA government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson AlcottThe CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon JohnsonThe movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will RogersIt is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can;
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity
George Bernard ShawThe most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
Penelope CruzKids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names
Charles BarkleyNo dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
Mikhail BaryshnikovResponding to a question on which businesses support the Liberal Democrats: 'Oh, a lot...Geoffrey Madrell, very distinguished businessman, not least because he's the chairman of Glenmorangie...I consider that my most notable scalp so far in my leadership.'
Charles KennedyGenerally, it's very difficult to get established in the music business in any era.
Peter AsherHe's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me. [On Jordan - Jane September 2004]
Christina AguileraPolitics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald ReaganDrawing is many things all at once - it is a hobby, a pastime, a pursuit and of course a business as well.
Bill GriffithThe master looks sharpest to his own business
PhaedrusThe wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business we believe this is an industrywide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share.
Antonio PerezJust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund FreudHow to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)
Shepherd MeadSuccess in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Sophie TuckerI walked out of show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family.
Pete BestI've been in the business for 20 years, then I come on this show, sit on my arse, eat crap, jump out of an aeroplane - and now everyone wants to talk about me.
Joe PasqualeI long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man. [Looking at adverts on TV these days it is probably going the other way]
Howard GossageThe Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Jack WelchThe magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters'The whole of this unfortunate business', said Dr Lyster, 'has been the result of Pride and Prejudice' [Cecilia]
Fanny BurneyThe worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Harold GeneenCricket must be the only business where you can make more money in one day than you can in three.
Pat GibsonIf you are looking for a small slice of power then you could do worse than get involved in business.
Garet GarrettI don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Richard BachThe fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
Kerry Packer
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