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The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process. — George E.P. Box

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. — Norman Lear

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21. — Rick Scott

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union. — Tim Harford

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. — Mick Jagger

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach. — Sun Tzu

Friends don't always make the best of business partners. — Chris Campbell

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. — Elon Musk

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. — Stephen Covey

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. — Jeff Bezos

The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time. — Fran Tarkenton

Can't you go tomorrow?' she said. 'No, I can't! The business I'm going for, the warrant and the money, won't have come by tomorrow,' he replied. — Leo Tolstoy

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School. — Greg Brenneman

I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards. — Rosamund Pike

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. — William Feather

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain. — Dada Bhagwan

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. — Stanley Fish

There are many vampires in the world today ... you only have to think of the film business. — Christopher Lee

The key to human development is building on who you already are — Tom Rath

Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years! — Anton Szandor LaVey

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be. — Rob Kardashian

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry. — Mark Cuban

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. — George Michael

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction. — Will Christopher Baer

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. — Sun Tzu

Whaling was the oil business of its day. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret ... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business. — Linda Fiorentino

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. — Howard Schultz

The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience — Phil Harding

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition. — John Sulston

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you? — Katie Price

And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand. — David Brier

We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. — Charles M. Schwab

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. — Tacitus

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously. — Uwe Boll

Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it. — Laura Busche

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. — Vance Havner

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style. — Gordon Getty

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships. — Daniel Goleman

The best way of learning about anything is by doing. — Richard Branson

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. — Randy Travis

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business. — Robert Kiyosaki

God made me the way that I am and it's my business to be true to that. — Dolly Parton

Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals. — G.K. Chesterton

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it. — Sam Ewing

When a family is unified, it doesn't matter what business they're in. They can successfully transition from one generation to the next. — Andrew Keyt

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem. — James C. Collins

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life. — Robert Morley

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends. — James Goodnight

The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises. — James Surowiecki

Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner. — Pearl Zhu

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow. — Abraham Lincoln

It's the business of your life ... and you're the CEO! — Dr. Gala Gorman

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business. — Mia Wasikowska

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train. — Paul Dickson

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. — Herbert Hoover

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. — Robert Reich

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing. — Richard Branson

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. — William Devane

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. — Owen Feltham

One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design. — Gayle Laakmann McDowell

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board. — Mark Miller

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not. — Henry Blodget

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation. — Samuel Johnson

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow. — Larry Kirshbaum

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. — Henry David Thoreau

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick. — George Lois

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. — Peter Drucker

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world. — Anita Roddick

MAKE WAVES WITH ME! My talk's not cheap, but sponsorship is inexpensive and tax-deductible. — Lisa Tolliver

I was asked what I thought about the recession. I thought about it and decided not to take part. — Sam Walton

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology. — Colin Angle

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. — John Lydon

We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business. — Jo Nesbo

The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge. — Kelly Link

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody. — Jim Garrison

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. — Robert Waterman McChesney

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort. — John Caudwell

I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective. — Joel Kinnaman

These are the Disciplines that can change everything! — Mark Mullins

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. — Wendell Berry

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. — Samuel Johnson

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business. — Chris D'Elia

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy. — Frank Winfield Woolworth

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union. — Mark Rutte

For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse - no question about it. — Peter H. Diamandis

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views. — Khem Veasna

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions. — David J. Greer

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. — Leo Burnett

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees? — Brad D. Smith

Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points. — Tom Althouse

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. — Tom Peters

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company. — Tamim Iqbal

I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business. — Harvey Weinstein

What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system. — Melissa Cady

The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well. — Roy H. Williams

I believe we're the party of small business. — Ed Gillespie

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? — Virginia Woolf