962 private quotes tagged business

“I buy when other people are selling.” — J. Paul Getty

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“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.” — Leo Burnett

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“In business for yourself, not by yourself.” — William James

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“I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.” — Lord Acton

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“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.” — Michael Korda

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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

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“Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.” — Scott McNealy

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“When you're eight years old nothing is your business.” — Lenny Bruce

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“There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.” — Bob Woodward

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“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.” — Jane Austen

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“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” — Zig Ziglar

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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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“Music and the music business are two different things.” — Erykah Badu

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“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.” — Phyllis Diller

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“Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.” — Carroll O'Connor

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“I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.” — Donald Trump

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

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“I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.” — Lucille Ball

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“Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.” — Carroll O'Connor

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“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.” — William James

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“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.” — H. P. Lovecraft

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“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.” — Billy Graham

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“I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.” — Carroll O'Connor

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“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.” — Andrew Jackson

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“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” — Elvis Presley

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