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" Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out. "

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" It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. "

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Dinner

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" It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good. "

" Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together. "

" Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it. "

" It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream. "

" No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. "

" When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life. "

" When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if - it's a question of when. "

" For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house. "

Heidi Klum

House

Public

" The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business. "

" My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did. "

" No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Business

Process

New

" Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. "

" If you don't want fries with your Happy Meal, you can switch it for a fruit bag or a portion of carrot sticks. I think that is the sign of a progressive business. "

" It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business. "

" Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me. "

Jon Favreau

People

Business

" Carpe per diem - seize the check. "

" It's been many years that I've been in this business. All of a sudden, I'm getting all of these wonderful people approaching me and asking me to work with them. It's very hard to say no when you love and respect people. "

" No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company. "

" There are people who are better managers than I am. I aspire to be a really good manager, but it's not my natural personality to do the same thing for 14 hours a day. I have a lot of different interests. I really like product and strategy and business strategy, and I think I'm not bad at it. "

" Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. "

" Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. "

" One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. "

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You

Yours

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" When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company. "

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Control

Good

Character

" Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. "

" No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. "

Florence Scovel Shinn

Business

Work

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" They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. "

" I did every odd job you could possibly imagine: Holding a sign in the rain for 14 hours straight, sweeping up cigarette butts, pouring coffee, running around - anything I could to be on a film set. I wanted to be in the business. So I'd say, 'You need that job done? Fine,' and I became indispensable to people. "

" People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. "