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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.
Emma Roberts on business

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
James Buchan on business

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
James Buchan on business

A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. Forbes on business

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
Clara Barton on business

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor on business

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
Russell Baker on business

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
Russell Baker on business

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
Russell Baker on business

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.
Martin Feldstein on business

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.
Russell Baker on business

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
Kit Bond on business

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
Peter Fonda on business

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
Shirley Manson on business

Business is tough you need tough guys.
Carlos Ghosn on business

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.
Roger Stone on business

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
Billie Jean King on business

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
Dave Chappelle on business

My home has always been show business.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on business

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
Sammy Davis, Jr. on business