“Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!”
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“I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.”
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”
“The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.”
“In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.”
“I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.”
“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.”
“Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.”
“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”
“Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”
“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.”
“I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking a-s whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.”
“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
“I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.”
“I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.”
“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.”
“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.”
“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.”
“No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.”
“I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.”
“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.”
“Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.”
“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”