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" You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. "

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" I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. "

Chester A. Arthur

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

Aristotle Onassis

" I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. "

" Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal. "

" There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? "

" Franchises mean that you're tied in. That's a lovely feeling of comfort to the whole thing. From a business perspective, it really keeps you current and lets you go and do other smaller, more pedestrian things. "

" My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it. "

" It's extremely difficult and very challenging to be a woman in film and television. Just showing up in this business forces you to know yourself. But I learned how to deal with rejection and get tough when I was working as a model - it taught me how to put myself out there. In a way, my time modelling was a preparation for life. "

Carrie-Anne Moss

" Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

" When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam. "

Fabrizio Moreira

" Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. "

" Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and let 'the market' decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles. "

" If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you. "

" Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. "

Richard Branson

" But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms. "

" Trade is very good for the country. It's very good for the GDP. It's good for wages, but it doesn't mean it's always good for every business. So we should have trade assistance, which is about relocation, re-education, and training. "

" Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music. "

" After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs. "

Mitch McConnell

" The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done. "

Robert Stigwood

" I sometimes compare starting a business to having a child. You have a moment of profound inspiration, followed by months of thankless hard work and waking up in the middle of the night. "

" I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business. "

" My business is to prevent the future. "

" In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. "

" Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. "

Grenville Kleiser

" We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. "