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HERBERT HOOVER It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business
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KATHY LIVELY All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.
HUGH MACLEOD Taxes matter to businesses. How a state taxes business is just as important as how much a state taxe...
SCOTT HODGE Even if you have just started a business it is important to start immediately as a giant
SUNDAY ADELAJA This is too much reality for a Friday.
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FABRIZIO MOREIRA The venture with Biztravel.com extends our existing strength as the leading resource for business ne...
CRAIG FORMAN I think it is an important business term and getting more important as the term progresses.
MARK LEVY I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the d...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
HAROLD S. GENEEN As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my vo...
SINEAD O'CONNOR You mean old books?"
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PHILIP K. DICK Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY We think it's very important, we think it's vital and it's just another step in retaining and recrui...
STAN SMITH It would be treated as though it were a new business.
BRIAN MCMAHON It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
HAROLD S. GENEEN Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
MANOJ BHARGAVA It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
DORIS LESSING A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
BARRY RITHOLTZ Buying over an existing business is a smart move. The revenue starts running on the day you take ove...
ZENG HAN JUN Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape thei...
JOHN MCAFEE The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
JOHN HURT Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) The growth for commercial IDEs is clearly over as a stand-alone business, but the development role i...
ERIK FRIEBERG You sacrifice everything to start a new business. To have the thought of that taken away with no or ...
AARON EDWARDS It can cost 10 times more for a retailer to get a new customer than to get more business from existi...
ALLAN KATZ As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New...
TUPAC SHAKUR It's changed from being a giggle factor to being heralded as a new business.
GEOFF SHEERIN The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
HUME CRONYN The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
HUME CRONYN Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're livi...
DAVID LORD It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to particip...
GEORGE W. ROMNEY Bringing in new business and new employers isn't our only job. We have to keep the people we have co...
ERIC PETERS We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.
ADLAI STEVENSON The number one business priority this year, as in 2006, is business-process improvement.
MARK MCDONALD Houston represents an important growth area for McKesson, ... so the decision was made to locate a d...
JAMES LARKIN Mark plays by his own rules. As downtown was faced with competition from the suburbs, Mark has hung ...
LUCY MEADE We're just going to try to proceed with business as usual.
FELICIA STOCKFORD I feel it's important to mark my cross as soon as possible.
JOHN BYRNE Merrill ends up with just as much exposure, if not more, to the asset management business as they di...
CRAIG WOKER I am pleased with our results this quarter, which reflect that we are executing on our strategy to m...
MICHAEL GOLDEN Mark brings a unique blend of proven business skills and a combination of commercial and financial m...
JOE HOGAN You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is ...
ROBERT HERJAVEC The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
AMBROSE BIERCE The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
AMBROSE BIERCE The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you ...
STEFON DIGGS The additional capacity will be used to grow our Midwest business with both existing and new custome...
DENNIS BARRINEAU I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business h...
JACK WILD Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside foot...
SIMON KUPER Housing is as strong as ever, and the mortgage business is as good as ever.
CHRISTOPHER LOW Generating a system architecture is not a deterministic process. It requires careful consideration o...
ANDREW HOLDSWORTH As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
MARK WAHLBERG The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is tha...
CHARLTON HESTON There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result...
ADAM DURITZ And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows old...
HUME CRONYN If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everyt...
CHRIS JERICHO This is definitely as much business as we have ever seen.
BILL THRELKELD As future installations of Office and Access delivered by technology and service providers must be o...
JEFF CAMPBELL Recruiting is an art. You have to be as serious about recruiting as you are about coaching.
LACEY SCHANZ As a government employee, I was always fighting for financial resources, new staff, new everything, ...
HORACE MANN I think it's really important in any kind of business transition that the person who's the owner dri...
JOE ROTH When your gut tells you - get serious. As far as business plans, I'm not a fan of them. Business is ...
LILY CHATTERJEE The important fact is they're a first mover in a high-margin business that will have increased adopt...
ANTHONY NOTO In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it...
ALAN GARNER The key thing from the business owner's perspective is knowing what the business is worth as opposed...
ALEX KINDLER It's good for business. But we will look after our existing suppliers first.
GREG BENNETT The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a ch...
OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON As each city grows and develops, it's important to coordinate signals so that traffic can move as ef...
GEOFF DUPAIX No matter how much we tweet, blog and post, nothing in business is as powerful as actual face time w...
JAY SAMIT We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point...
JEFF BARKER Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and...
CHARLES SAATCHI Spring recruiting is very important for our program as we need to do a good job evaluating talent fo...
GREG PETERSON important and dangerous business.
AHMED RESSAM It's not just about business consequences. There are human and social consequences as well.
JEFF PAPOWS From everything I understand, it's business as usual. Everything seems to be just fine.
ROGER CLOUTIER The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is...
CHARLTON HESTON The main thing is we operate as a business.
LARRY PORTER Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is differ...
KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA This new venture will aim to meet the growing demand in that region for accurate and insightful busi...
RAJU NARISETTI It's not business as usual.
MARK PARKER It takes faith to make a non existing business to become absolutely essential & valuable.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER The numbers just didn't make sense. But no one can look at it just as a business.
GARY SANTIMYER As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
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MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
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MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
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MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
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MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
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MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
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MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
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MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
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MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
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MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
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MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
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MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
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MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
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MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
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MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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