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Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. -- Ludwig von Mises
If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business. -- Charles E. Merrill
Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine. -- Naveen Jain
Hurried business is bad business. -- Patrick deWitt
Taxes cause the most bad business decisions. -- James Cook
I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage. -- Kevin Drew
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. -- Sarah Josepha Hale
I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. -- Rand Paul
Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right. -- Malcolm Forbes
In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense. -- Charlie Munger
Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked. -- Chuck D
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression. -- Ludwig von Mises
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager. -- Dave Grohl
I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first. -- Steve Pavlina
These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense. -- T.C. Boyle
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them. -- Melinda Gates
Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream. -- John Gokongwei
Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business. -- Steven Pinker
I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad. -- Nate Berkus
When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions. -- Daymond John
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. -- James Surowiecki
Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term. -- Gerry Schwartz
In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing. -- Peter Schuyler
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A. -- Emily Blunt
That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work. -- Merv Griffin
When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. -- Moby
This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. -- Paul Giamatti
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. -- Warren Buffett
This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs. -- Jodi Rell
Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on. -- Ed Rendell
Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed. -- P. Chidambaram
I don't apologize for my clothes. There are a lot of bad dressers in golf, and I don't think I'm one of them. There are a lot of bad dressers in every business. -- Sergio Garcia
The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. -- Clayton Christensen
Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business. -- Jerome Lawrence
Discrimination , in all its forms, is bad for business. -- Tim Cook
The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad. -- Jim Cramer
Things that are bad for business are bad for the people who work for business. -- Thomas E. Dewey
Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy, -- Sharan Burrow
There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. -- Tom Robbins
When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. -- Leonard Woolley
In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either. -- Perry Como
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. -- Robert Browning
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. -- David Frum
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice. -- Robert Browning
You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong. -- Richard Branson
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. -- Charlie Munger
I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem. -- Artie Lange
It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business. -- Antonis Samaras
Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears. -- Zig Ziglar
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. -- Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government. -- Hillary Clinton
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. -- H. L. Mencken
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford. -- Andrew Hacker
You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it. -- Carmen Electra
There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business. -- Robert LaSardo
In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business. -- Steve Aylett
I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. -- Chuck Lorre
Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business. -- Toba Beta
It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive. -- Alex Berenson
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern. -- Lev Grossman
It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last. -- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. -- John Green
Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it. Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT. -- Robin Hobb
Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack. -- Jack Ma
I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions. -- James Sinegal
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact -- Warren Buffett
When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact. -- Warren Buffett
There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game. -- William Davis
No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen. -- Jamie Dimon

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