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We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

Norm Coleman

Politician · American · b. 1949

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

John Hutton

Educator · English · b. 1965

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

Businessman · American · 1835 – 1919

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

Dick Cheney

Vice President · American · b. 1941

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cage

Composer · American · 1912 – 1992

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Author · American · b. 1935

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Jane Byrne

Politician · American · b. 1934

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Karl Liebknecht

Politician · German · 1871 – 1919

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Don Bluth

Artist · American · b. 1937

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

Neil Cavuto

Journalist · American · b. 1958

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Dave Barry

Journalist · American · b. 1947

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Thorstein Veblen

Economist · American · 1857 – 1929

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Wietse Venema

Scientist · Dutch

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Ralph Nader

Lawyer · American · b. 1934

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Stephen Ambrose

Historian · American · 1936 – 2002

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Douglas Hurd

Politician · British · b. 1930

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

Horace

Poet · Roman

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

Anita Roddick

Businessman · English · b. 1942

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

Sam Donaldson

Journalist · American · b. 1934

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

Anatoly Chubais

Politician · Russian · b. 1955

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

Director · German · b. 1965

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Germaine Greer

Activist · Australian · b. 1939

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

Barry Goldwater

Politician · American · 1909 – 1998

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.

Roy Barnes

Politician · American · b. 1948

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim Cantalupo

Businessman · American · 1943 – 2004

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

Jeff Miller

Politician · American · b. 1959

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

Hans Blix

Diplomat · Swedish · b. 1928

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

Sydney Smith

Clergyman · English · 1771 – 1845

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Josiah Strong

Clergyman · American

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Aneurin Bevan

Politician · Welsh · 1897 – 1960

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

Kevin Rollins

Businessman · American

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

J. Paul Getty

Businessman · American · 1892 – 1976

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

Robert Shea

Author · American · 1909 – 1994

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

Businessman · American · b. 1932

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

Dick Schaap

Journalist · American · 1934 – 2001

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

Gerard Arpey

Businessman · American · b. 1958

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Author · Swiss · 1921 – 1990

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Dan Rather

Journalist · American · b. 1931

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Richard Cobden

Businessman · British · 1804 – 1865

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Author · American

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Politician · American · b. 1960

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.

Donald Rumsfeld

Politician · American · b. 1932

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

Herb Ritts

Photographer · American · 1952 – 2002

We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.

Rick Perry

Politician · American · b. 1950

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.

Will McDonough

Writer · American · 1935 – 2003

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