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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Steven Soderbergh

Director · American · b. 1963

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Richard Bach

Novelist · American · b. 1936

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

Leo Burnett

Businessman · American · 1891 – 1971

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wendell Phillips

Activist · American · 1811 – 1884

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Don Bluth

Artist · American · b. 1937

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Robert Browning

Poet · English · 1812 – 1889

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

Donald Trump

Businessman · American · b. 1946

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Don Marquis

Poet · American · 1878 – 1937

If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.

Lee Scott

Businessman · American

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

William Standish Knowles

Scientist · American · b. 1917

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

Paul Getty

Businessman · American · 1932 – 2003

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

John Buchanan Robinson

Politician · American · 1846 – 1933

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.

Francis Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Ralph Nader

Lawyer · American · b. 1934

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

Taylor Hackford

Director · American · b. 1944

Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.

John Hutton

Educator · English · b. 1965

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

Charles Dickens

Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

Bill Condon

Director · American · b. 1955

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Lee Iacocca

Businessman · American · b. 1924

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

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

Charles Dickens

Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Trevor Nunn

Director · English · b. 1940

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Bill Gates

Businessman · American · b. 1955

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Roy Barnes

Politician · American · b. 1948

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Bill Gates

Businessman · American · b. 1955

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

Richard M. Nixon

President · American · 1913 – 1994

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

Writer · English

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

O. Henry

Writer · American · 1862 – 1910

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

Gwen Ifill

Journalist · American · b. 1955

We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Diplomat · American · 1930 – 2011

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

Author · American · 1874 – 1946

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Author · American · b. 1936

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Henry Ford

Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Jim Lehrer

Journalist · American · b. 1934

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Bruce Barton

Author · American · 1886 – 1967

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

Joseph Barbera

Cartoonist · American · 1911 – 2006

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Washington Irving

Writer · American · 1783 – 1859

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Tony Snow

Journalist · American · 1955 – 2008

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

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

Leo Burnett

Businessman · American · 1891 – 1971

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Hosea Ballou

Clergyman · American · b. 1771

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

David Ogilvy

Businessman · English · 1911 – 1999

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Francis Ford Coppola

Director · American · b. 1939

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

Journalist · b. 1919

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