Quotes with non-business

Quotes 681 till 698 of 698.

  • Barry McGuire You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Alan Alda You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin You've got to be a misanthrope in this business, a real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it.
    Source: As quoted in Hit It If Its Big in TIME magazine (21 July 1961)
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Washington Irving Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Francis Bacon Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Butler All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison 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 Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Fuller Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Fuller Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Helen Keller Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Pablo Picasso Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ben Shapiro The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Simone Weil The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Pablo Picasso The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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