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Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

Michael Medved

Journalist · American · b. 1948

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Leo Burnett

Businessman · American · 1891 – 1971

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

Thorstein Veblen

Economist · American · 1857 – 1929

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Gilbert Parker

Politician · British · 1862 – 1932

Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.

Jon Porter

Politician · American · b. 1955

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

Jane Byrne

Politician · American · b. 1934

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Rutherford B. Hayes

President · American · 1822 – 1893

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

Writer

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

Martin Bashir

Journalist · British · b. 1963

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

John Searle

Philosopher · American · b. 1932

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Paul Hawken

Environmentalist

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Politician · American · b. 1935

In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.

Peter Schuyler

Politician · English · 1657 – 1724

I don't believe we're the party of big business.

Ed Gillespie

Politician · American · b. 1962

Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

Ben Hecht

Writer · American · 1894 – 1964

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Margaret Thatcher

Leader · English · b. 1925

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Charles M. Schwab

Businessman · American · 1862 – 1939

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti

Playwright · Italian · 1892 – 1953

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Thomas A. Edison

Inventor · American · 1847 – 1931

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

B. C. Forbes

Journalist · Scottish · 1880 – 1954

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

T. S. Eliot

Poet · American · 1888 – 1965

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Scientist · French · 1805 – 1859

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way.

Benjamin Cohen

Journalist · English · b. 1982

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

Businessman · American · b. 1924

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

Robert Reich

Economist · American · b. 1946

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

William Congreve

Poet · English · 1670 – 1729

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Milan Kundera

Writer · Czechoslovakian · b. 1929

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

John Romero

Inventor · American · b. 1967

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Jesse Ventura

Politician · American · b. 1952

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

Norman Mailer

Novelist · American · 1923 – 2007

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Tom Brokaw

Journalist · American · b. 1940

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Diplomat · American · 1930 – 2011

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.

Malcolm Forbes

Publisher · American · 1917 – 1990

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

Writer · English · 1737 – 1809

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Fredrik Bajer

Writer · Danish · 1837 – 1922

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

John Jay Chapman

Poet · American · b. 1862

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

Meg Whitman

Businessman · American · b. 1956

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Chocola

Politician · American · b. 1962

I believe we're the party of small business.

Ed Gillespie

Politician · American · b. 1962

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Bill Gates

Businessman · American · b. 1955

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Leader · American · 1902 – 1994

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

Tom Allen

Politician · American · b. 1945

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Laura Bush

First Lady · American · b. 1946

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

Politician · American · b. 1935

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Ulrich Beck

Sociologist · German · b. 1944

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

Christie Hefner

Businessman · American · b. 1952

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Yahoo Serious

Director · Australian · b. 1953

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