3 December 2020 Grace Paley The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
3 December 2020 Rod Blagojevich A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
3 December 2020 Edna Ferber Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
3 December 2020 Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mitchell The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
3 December 2020 Miranda Lambert You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time’s going to come when you go back down.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I’m in complete charge of my own career.
3 December 2020 Jeff Bezos The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
3 December 2020 Guy Kawasaki The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
3 December 2020 Don Rickles Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
3 December 2020 Christopher Walken Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
3 December 2020 Brian Tracy If you like a person you say ‘let’s go into business together.’ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
3 December 2020 Joe Manchin Come to West Virginia and we’ll show you how to live… how to treat people. We’re open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
3 December 2020 Kelly Clarkson The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there’s this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, ‘Well, you say I’m a pop star, so maybe that’s not true.’
3 December 2020 Scott Adams Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
3 December 2020 Warren Buffett The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
3 December 2020 Al Gore America’s political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
3 December 2020 Sally Kirkland I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I’ve always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
3 December 2020 Ron Wyden As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
3 December 2020 Saul Bellow I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
