Quotes with small-business

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  • Agnes Smedley I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Paine I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • William Blake I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Abraham Cowley I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Billie Holiday I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Anthony Holden I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Raymond Chandler I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • A. S. Byatt I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
    Possession (1990)
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Art Linkletter I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Atom Egoyan I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Kim Basinger I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
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