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Success in business requires vision, tenacity, and an unyielding belief in your abilities. These business motivational quotes will empower you to take bold steps, overcome obstacles, and lead with confidence toward your goals.

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"The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love."

Myles Munroe
Tags: Kingdom, Love of God, Myles Munroe, Relationships, Social Environment

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"If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exists for the future."

Jack Ma
Tags: Business Creation, future, Innovation, Jack Ma

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"If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty."

Stephen Covey
Tags: Adaptation, Business Challenges, Stephen Covey, Uncertainty

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"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it."

Hillary Clinton
Tags: Communication, Confidentiality, Ethics, Hillary Clinton, Trust

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"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

Helen Keller
Tags: Altruism, Excitement, Helen Keller, Life, Service

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"The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit."

John McAfee
Tags: Empowerment, entrepreneurship, Gig Economy, John McAfee, Opportunities

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"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."

Samuel Adams
Tags: Adaptation, Events, Improvement, Samuel Adams

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"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."

Vikram Patel
Tags: Everyone, Importance, Mental Health, Professionals, Vikram Patel

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"The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution."

Kenneth Frazier
Tags: Biomedical Research, Failure, Kenneth Frazier, Knowledge, Science

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"Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does."

Cyrus McCormick
Tags: Advertising, Business, Cyrus McCormick, Knowledge, Perception

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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, love, Personal Affairs

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"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."

Harvey S. Firestone
Tags: Business Ethics, Fundamental, Harvey S. Firestone, Honesty, Integrity

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"It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business."

Claudia Gray
Tags: Assumptions, Claudia Gray, Information, Knowledge, Questions

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"You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun."

Derek Jeter
Tags: Business, Derek Jeter, Fun, Game, Job

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"My private life is my own business."

Roddy Llewellyn
Tags: Boundaries, Life, Personal, Privacy, Roddy Llewellyn

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"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it."

Mark Cuban
Tags: Business, Equity, Knowledge, Mark Cuban, Passion

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

Pierre Trudeau
Tags: Government, Nation, Pierre Trudeau, Privacy, State

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"We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want."

Ice Cube
Tags: Audience, Demand, Entertainment, Ice Cube, Satisfaction

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"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."

Rutherford B. Hayes
Tags: Boldness, Counsel, Hope, Rutherford B. Hayes, Success

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"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."

Nicholas II of Russia
Tags: Governance, Monarchy, Nicholas Ii Of Russia, Readiness, Ruling

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"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."

William Wordsworth
Tags: Peace, Self, Society, Solitude, William Wordsworth

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"Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business."

Anand Mahindra
Tags: Anand Mahindra, Business, Ethics, Life, Sustainability

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"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend."

Mark McCormack
Tags: Business, Equality, Friendship, Mark Mccormack, Success

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"Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards."

Kerry Stokes
Tags: Ethics, Honesty, Kerry Stokes, Society, Standards

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"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."

Robert Louis Stevenson
Tags: Failure, Life, Robert Louis Stevenson, Spirit, Success

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"The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection."

Robin S. Sharma
Tags: Connection, Inspiration, Life, Relationships, Robin S. Sharma

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"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
Tags: Business, Enmity, Friendship, Mahatma Gandhi, Religion

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"It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top - in business or in sports."

George Blanda
Tags: Attitude, Dedication, Discipline, George Blanda, Hard Work

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"To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'."

DJ Khaled
Tags: Business, Dj Khaled, Motivation, Perseverance, Success

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"I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."

Smedley Butler
Tags: Capitalism, Military, Racketeer, Service, Smedley Butler

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"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."

Francis Bacon
Tags: Francis Bacon, Invention, Judgment, Projects, Youth

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"Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology."

Donald Johanson
Tags: Belief, Commitment, Donald Johanson, Positive Attitude, Success

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"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."

Grenville Kleiser
Tags: Anxiety, Depression, Grenville Kleiser, Humor, Tonic

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"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."

Peter Lynch
Tags: Business, Idiot, Management, Peter Lynch

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"The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches."

Antonin Scalia
Tags: Ambiguity, Antonin Scalia, Lawyer, Mystery, Romance

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"I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money."

Richard Quest
Tags: Acumen, Business, Richard Quest, Sales

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"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."

Aaron Burr
Tags: Aaron Burr, Pleasure, Rule of Life

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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

William Blake
Tags: Business Acumen, creation, System, William Blake

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"When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business."

Manal al-Sharif
Tags: Corruption, Injustice, Manal al-Sharif, Speaking Up

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"Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win."

Kevin O'Leary
Tags: Business, Competition, Kevin O'Leary, winning

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"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

Michel de Montaigne
Tags: Michel de Montaigne, Nature, Perseverance

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"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

Michael J. Fox
Tags: Excellence, Michael J. Fox, Perfection

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"If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing."

Seth Rollins
Tags: Learning, Progress, Seth Rollins, Stagnation

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"Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you."

Robert Budi Hartono
Tags: Business Acumen, Reputation, Robert Budi Hartono, Trust

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"Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service."

John Rampton
Tags: Customers, John Rampton, Lifeblood, Product Development

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"Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs."

David Lynch
Tags: Creativity, David Lynch, Emotion, Intuition

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"Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being."

Peter Diamandis
Tags: Mindset, Peter Diamandis, Success, Well-Being

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"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."

Clara Barton
Tags: Clara Barton, Everybody's Business, Privacy

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"Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people."

Sonia Sotomayor
Tags: Idealistic, Networking, Sonia Sotomayor, Virtue

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"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."

Hunter S. Thompson
Tags: Hunter S. Thompson, Journalism, TV Business, Ugly

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"Punctuality is the soul of business."

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Tags: Business, Punctuality, Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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"What other people think of me is none of my business."

Gary Oldman
Tags: Gary Oldman, Opinions, Privacy

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"Student loans are delaying retirements. They're suppressing the housing market. They're suffocating new business formation. They're even leading young people to delay getting married and having children."

Annie Lowrey
Tags: Annie Lowrey, Housing Market, Retirement, Student Loans

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"I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business."

Isaac Newton
Tags: Business, Isaac Newton, Mathematics, Printing

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"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

Thomas J. Watson
Tags: Heart, Success, Thomas J. Watson

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"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

Harold S. Geneen
Tags: Harold S. Geneen, Law, performance, Reality

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"I never called my work an 'art.' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."

Walt Disney
Tags: Art, Entertainment, Walt Disney, Work

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"My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."

Anthony Hopkins
Tags: Acceptance, Anthony Hopkins, Expectation, Philosophy

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"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."

Barack Obama
Tags: Barack Obama, Change, efficiency, Responsibility

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"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball or the theater or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."

Al Lopez
Tags: Al Lopez, Best, Passion

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"Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs, and boosts business."

Alok Sharma
Tags: Alok Sharma, Growth, Infrastructure, Jobs

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"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man sitting alone in his house what books he may read or what films he may watch."

Thurgood Marshall
Tags: First Amendment, Freedom, Thurgood Marshall

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"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."

Brian Clough
Tags: Brian Clough, Manager, Top

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"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."

Ronald Reagan
Tags: Business, Government, Minds, Ronald Reagan

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"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."

C. S. Lewis
Tags: C. S. Lewis, Heaven, Joy

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"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly."

Thomas Sowell
Tags: Media, News, Reporting, Thomas Sowell

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"There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business."

Oscar De La Hoya
Tags: Business, Improvement, Oscar De La Hoya

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"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

Plato
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"What other people think of you is none of your business."

Regina Brett
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"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."

Richard Branson
Tags: Bus, Opportunities, Richard Branson

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"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Ray Bradbury
Tags: Business, Friendship, love, Ray Bradbury

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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

Noam Chomsky
Tags: Business Party, Democrats, Noam Chomsky, Republicans

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"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Thomas Paine
Tags: Principles, Smile, Strength, Thomas Paine

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"You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple."

Adena Friedman
Tags: Adena Friedman, Business, Risks, Successful

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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

Abraham Lincoln
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Litigation, Opportunity, Peacemaker

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"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."

Michael LeBoeuf
Tags: Business strategy, Customer, Michael LeBoeuf

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"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."

Mitch Hedberg
Tags: Casino, Fire Exit, Flammable, Mitch Hedberg

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"I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales."

Zig Ziglar
Tags: Business, Sales, Salesperson, Zig Ziglar

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"When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life."

Jocko Willink
Tags: Jocko Willink, Ownership, Problem Solving, Team

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"Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business."

Dan Peña
Tags: Business, Costa Gratsos, Dan Peña, Mentor

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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

Thomas Carlyle
Tags: Action, Main Business, Thomas Carlyle

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"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."

Winston Churchill
Tags: Earnest Business, Politics, Winston Churchill

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"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

John D. Rockefeller
Tags: Business, Friendship, John D. Rockefeller

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"Politics is show business for ugly people."

Paul Begala
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"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."

Steve Jobs
Tags: Business, Great Things, Steve Jobs, Team

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"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

Leonardo Da Vinci
Tags: Leonardo Da Vinci, Principles, Smile, Strength

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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
Tags: Economics, Management, Reputation, Warren Buffett

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"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."

Tim Berners-Lee
Tags: Data, Design, Tim Berners-Lee, Web Users

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"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."

Elon Musk
Tags: Company, Elon Musk, Selling

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"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."

Elon Musk
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"Never argue with a profit."

Jeff Rich
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"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."

Ralph Nader
Tags: Calories, Corporations, Deductible, Ralph Nader

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"The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'"

Eric Schmidt
Tags: Companies, Eric Schmidt, Innovators, Invention

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"If you fire people, you fire customers."

Ferdinand Piech
Tags: Customers, Ferdinand Piech, Firing

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"Exchange ideas frequently."

James Cash Penney
Tags: Exchange, Ideas, James Cash Penney

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"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."

Peter Drucker
Tags: Defined, Money, Peter Drucker

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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

Robert Browning
Tags: Ambitious Men, Climbing, Robert Browning

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"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."

Thomas J. Watson
Tags: Fun, Kid, Playing, Thomas J. Watson

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"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."

William Wycherley
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"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers."

Edgar Fiedler
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"The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife."

David Ogilvy
Tags: Consumer, David Ogilvy, Moron, Wife

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"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."

Ted Turner
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"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his."

Bobby Darin
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"There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it."

Marc Andreessen
Tags: Graduates, Marc Andreessen, Qualifications, Silicon Valley

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"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

Steve Ballmer
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"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

Andy Warhol
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"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

Walt Disney
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"The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself."

Blaine Lee
Tags: Blaine Lee, Honor, Inside out, Leader

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"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers."

Ross Perot
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"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything."

W. Clement Stone
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"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

Peter Drucker
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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
Tags: Henry Ford, Imagination, Skill, Success

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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

Walter Lippmann
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"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

Napoleon Hill
Tags: Failure, Napoleon Hill, Persistence

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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

Evan Esar
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"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

Winston Churchill
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"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

Mary Kay Ash
Tags: Company's Greatest Asset, Mary Kay Ash, People

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"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."

John Cleese
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"Cannibals prefer those who have no spines."

Stanislaw Lem
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"Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer."

Terry Semel
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"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."

William Wordsworth
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"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force."

Andre Maurois
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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."

John Dalberg-Acton
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

Thomas Carlyle
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"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."

Andrew Carnegie
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"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."

James Cash Penney
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"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."

Mitch Kapor
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"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful."

Blaine Lee
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"Business is in itself a power."

Garet Garrett
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"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."

Peter Drucker
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"A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company."

Gordon Bethune
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"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation."

Charles Baudelaire
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"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."

Edward Appleton
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"When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked."

Elon Musk
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"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

Thomas J. Watson
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"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."

A. C. Benson
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"The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'"

Jeff Bezos
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"Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness."

Stanislaw Lem
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"If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars."

James Surowiecki
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"My father told me, never have partners."

Howard Hughes
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"If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative."

David Ogilvy
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."

Winston Churchill
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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

Thomas A. Edison
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Steve Jobs
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"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."

Mary Kay Ash
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"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

Andy Warhol
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"I buy when other people are selling."

J. Paul Getty
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"Our favorite holding period is forever."

Warren Buffett
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"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."

Paul A. Volcker
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"No 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 Marden
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"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."

Jack Anderson
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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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"You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing."

Steve Ross
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"Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change."

An Wang
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"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."

Alvin Toffler
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"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."

Bill Gates
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"Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures."

Evan Esar
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"When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge."

Robert Kiyosaki
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"The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."

Elon Musk
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

Khalil Gibran
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"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."

Debbi Fields
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"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."

Publilius Syrus
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"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."

Herbert Hoover
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"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The business of America is business."

Calvin Coolidge
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"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

Harry Emerson Fosdick
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"No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company."

Edward Whitacre Jr.
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."

Colin Powell
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"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second."

Jeff Bezos
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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 you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."

Robert H. Schuller
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"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."

Scott McNealy
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"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."

Will Rogers
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"Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities."

Tom Allen
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"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."

John Greenleaf Whittier
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"When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?"

Glenn Beck
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"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."

Elon Musk
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"Employees want to feel inspired by their leaders…hire individuals who will lead by example."

Jody Kohner
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"Many companies get trapped by the paradox of hitting numbers ‘now’ versus improving sales for future quarters or years ahead."

Tiffani Bova
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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao Tzu
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"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net."

Meg Whitman
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"Happy employees lead to happy customers, which leads to more profits."

Vaughn Aust
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"Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom."

William George Jordan
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it."

Susan Butcher
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"Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying in space."

Chris Hadfield
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"Listening to your customers deeply, or you will have none."

Bryan Clayton
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"The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just best but legendary."

Sam Walton
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"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"

Sheryl Sandberg
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"Make a customer, not a sale."

Katherine Barchetti
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"Don't deliver a product, deliver an experience."

Unknown
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Abraham Lincoln
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"I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation."

Bobby Knight
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"Luck is what you have leftover after you give 100%."

Langston Coleman
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"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

Napoleon Hill
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"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it."

Andy Rooney
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou
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"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

Joe Girard
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"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationship."

Henry Ross Perot
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"The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love."

"If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exists for the future."

"If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty."

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

"The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit."

"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."

"There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business."

"The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution."

"Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does."

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

"I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business."

"It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business."

"You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun."

"My private life is my own business."

"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it."

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

"We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want."

"The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business."

"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."

"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude."

"Sustainability has to be a way of life to be a way of business."

"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend."

"Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards."

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."

"The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection."

"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."

"It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top - in business or in sports."

"To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'."

"I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."

"Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology."

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."

"Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."

"The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches."

"I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money."

"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

"When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business."

"Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win."

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

"If you're not learning, then you're stagnant. If you're stagnant, then you're not evolving and the business isn't progressing."

"Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you."

"Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service."

"Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs."

"Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being."

"Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business."

"Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people."

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."

"Punctuality is the soul of business."

"What other people think of me is none of my business."

"Student loans are delaying retirements. They're suppressing the housing market. They're suffocating new business formation. They're even leading young people to delay getting married and having children."

"I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business."

"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."

"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

"I never called my work an 'art.' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."

"My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball or the theater or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."

"Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs, and boosts business."

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man sitting alone in his house what books he may read or what films he may watch."

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."

"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."

"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly."

"There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business."

"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."

"What other people think of you is none of your business."

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

"You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."

"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."

"I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales."

"When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life."

"Constantine 'Costa' Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."