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" The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. "

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" ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business. "

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" The most talented people that I've met in this business are always the nicest. "

" The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience. "

" Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. "

" In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of. "

" Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business. "

" We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering. "

" For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.' "

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" Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. "

" Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. "

" 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. "

" My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. "

" A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. "

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You

Yours

Love

" I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes. "

" My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. "

" I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?' "

" Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community. "

" I'm not in the business of ranking or debating who is what. "

" When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support. "

" The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community. "

" What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' "

" Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information. "

" When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. "

" There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. "

" Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. "

" I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to. "

" You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. "

" The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. "

" The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault. "