“I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.”
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“The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.”
“I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.”
“In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.”
“Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.”
“Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.”
“Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.”
“Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.”
“A shady business never yields a sunny life.”
“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.”
“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”
“Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.”
“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.”
“There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.”
“A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.”
“The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.”
“According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.”
“I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.”
“And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.”
“In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.”
“When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.”
“I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.”
“My home has always been show business.”
“You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.”