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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
Thorstein Veblen

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. [Are flowers petrol powered now then?]
Eric Johnston

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
Amanda Bynes

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

Thirty-five years in show business and already nobody remembers me. Just like what's his name, and whos-its, and you know, that guy, who always wore a shirt.
Krusty The Klown

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby [attributed]
Lee Trevino

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

No self-respecting small businessman with a brain... would ever employ a lady of childbearing age.
Godfrey Bloom

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Mary Landrieu

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

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo

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

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.
Alan Arkin

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J P Getty

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon Johnson

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford

When I started over 10 years ago, the business wasn't like it is today.
Vendela Kirsebom

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

Believe in yourself, never give up and go about your business with passion drive and enthusiasm.
Peter Jones

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

Someone asked me where my suit came from and I very nearly said: 'It's none of your business.' But people are interested now. [on winning a bafta, that mitchell and webb look was the most unfunny comedy in history]
David Mitchell

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

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
Bruce Barton

Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.
Harvey Firestone

When I started in the business [acting], I was told that if I made it, I would not do so for a good many years, because of the physical and vocal type I am.
Thayer David

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
Sofia Coppola

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Margaret Mitchell

If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business.
Jeanne Holm

No praying, it spoils business. (Venice Preserved)
Thomas Otway

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business.
Derby Brown

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

She is cool. It's good to have older friends in the business, because they've seen it and they've done it. A lot of madness they've gone through, you can relate to. It's cool being able to vent sometimes and have someone truly understand. [On Sharon Stone - Jane September 2004]
Christina Aguilera

If the business is going well it's nothing to do with you and if it's going badly then it's all your fault.
Lord Levene

Business today consists in persuading crowds
Gerald Stanley Lee

I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore
William Melmoth

I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical." [on his style of business]
Ivan Boesky

I walked out of show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family.
Pete Best

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Sophie Tucker

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
Roy Rogers

"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them."
Betty Grable

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

What helps people, helps business.
Leo Burnett

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle Onassis

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.
Julianna Margulies



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