I like Mr. Gorbachev we can do business together.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business but in reality I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

In making this acquisition of Business Wire we have followed our blueprint of buying profitable companies that are industry leaders yet have significant growth potential.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling, save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

In this business until you're known as a monster, you're not a star.

Whatever I do it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

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

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings in acquiring knowledge in eating and in business becomes happy.

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.

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.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

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.

Friendship between equals flourishes service under a king is respectable it is good to be business-minded in public dealings and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.

In civil business, what first? Boldness, what second and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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 secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

My business is to prevent the future.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

But I believe in fair trade and I will tell you I have many many friends heading up corporations and people that do just business in China they say it's virtually impossible. It's very very hard to come into China. And yet we welcome them with open arms.

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

The market outperformed business for a very long time and that phenomenon had to end

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary fine.

No there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Both my brothers became physicians and I of course wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

If a business does well the stock eventually follows.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

If you can build a business up big enough it's respectable.

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.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease, a want of all laudable ambition of taste for good company or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish, read the newspaper watch the weather and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees will often be stung for his curiosity.

It can be hard in this business especially when you're very young to figure out who you can and can't trust.

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

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.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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.

If I love you what business is it of yours?

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

It is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.

In the business world the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

from a business perspective it's great for the NBA... Notoriety sells.

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