“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the g-------d people.”
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“It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.”
“I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.”
“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”
“I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.”
“Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.”
“A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.”
“I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.”
“There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.”
“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.”
“Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.”
“No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.”
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.”
“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.”
“I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.”
“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.”
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”
“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
“When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.”
“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.”
“In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.”
“Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.”
“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”