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See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool. -- James Daly
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. -- Leland Ryken
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not. -- Howard Schultz
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. -- Horatio Nelson
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. -- Christie Hefner
Great business turns on a little pin. -- George Herbert
Great businesses turne on a little pinne. -- George Herbert
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -- Thomas Paine
America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders. -- Nicky Oppenheimer
Google has a great product. They've built a great business. -- Chad Hurley
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. -- Michael Porter
It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. -- Charles Grandison Finney
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses. -- Tamara Mellon
Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model. -- Dan Rosensweig
Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them -- Warren Buffett
Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some. -- Alphonse Karr
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. -- Josiah Strong
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. -- Michael Gerber
My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman. -- Tory Burch
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions. -- Tony Hsieh
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. -- John Morley
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant. -- John Locke
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. -- Andrew Carnegie
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. -- Jacqueline Leo
When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun! -- Paul Prudhomme
If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret. -- Andrew Mason
The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business. -- Harry F. Byrd
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press. -- Douglas Leone
Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree. -- Clint Eastwood
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life. -- Robert Herjavec
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be. -- Jim Rohn
How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea. -- Mark Burnett
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. -- John Morley
The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary. -- George Washington
We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. -- Terence McKenna
I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name. -- Joe Mansueto
In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that. -- Mick Fleetwood
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. -- A. N. Wilson
Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business. -- Dave Goldberg
To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness. -- Richard Koch
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities? -- Jane Addams
It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business. -- Tony Fadell
If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to - it will be when it produces big profits and faster growth. It won't happen because of an optional executive commitment to an abstract concept. It will happen because sustainability is a great business strategy. And it is -- Paul Gilding
As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous. -- James Packer
It depends as there's many different types of chefs, some who cook for awards and others who cook to make their restaurant a great business. There are those who cook for a lifestyle, they'll have come through pubs and they like to have the connection to the farmers and the chickens and the natural produce. So for each chef it'll be slightly different. -- Paul Rankin
Every great business is built on friendship. -- James Cash Penney
I've had a great experience in the fashion business. -- Andie MacDowell
I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy. -- Donald Bren
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business. -- Ethel Waters
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. -- Farhan Akhtar
Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism. -- Lachlan Murdoch
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little. -- Thomas Jefferson
To be a great business person, you must be a great observer. -- Ehab Atalla
No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized. -- James Cash Penney
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age -- Scott Bakula
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. -- Scott Bakula
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. -- Charles Dickens
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. -- E. B. White
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside. -- Peter Drucker
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term. -- Gerry Schwartz
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have. -- Ginger Baker
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me -- Alan Ladd
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. -- Paul Getty
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. -- Paul Getty
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. -- William Hazlitt
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. -- Mitt Romney
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent. -- Andrew Lo
One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration. -- Andrew Carnegie
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. -- Woodrow Wilson
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me. -- Alan Ladd
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. -- Eric Hoffer
What's best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters. -- Chris Jericho
Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy. -- Brian Tracy
Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business. -- J. Willard Marriott
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem. -- Warren Buffett
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. -- William Shakespeare
Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done. -- Kurt Fuller
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive. -- Larry Wilcox
A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people. -- Steve Jobs
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price. -- Charlie Munger
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. -- David Hare
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. -- Horace Greeley
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America. -- Donald Trump
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you. -- Blair Underwood
I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. -- Richard Branson
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. -- Lewis Carroll
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example. -- Nolan Bushnell
That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem. -- James C. Collins
There's a lot of great strikers in the business but no one should ever forget about Chuck Liddell. -- Shawn Tompkins
Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear. -- Mark Cuban
I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art. -- Gay Talese
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. -- Rebecca De Mornay
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people. -- Brother Ali
Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity. -- Richard Branson
Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins. -- Blackie
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. -- Robert Harris
Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear. -- William Schutz
You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice. -- John D. Rockefeller
We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us. -- Scott Erickson
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. -- Rose Macaulay
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. -- Francis Bacon
Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough. -- Charlie Munger
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great. -- Foster Friess
A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school. -- Anita Roddick
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses. -- Carl Icahn
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men -- Victoria Principal
I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men. -- Victoria Principal
Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business. -- Jean Chatzky
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. -- Henry Cloud
There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own. -- J. Paul Getty
When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. -- Leonard Woolley
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. -- John Adams
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. -- Frederick Soddy
New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business. -- Georgina Chapman
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. -- Honore de Balzac
First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket. -- Eric Hoffer

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