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Trump says we should vote for him because he’s a great businessman. Really? He drove his companies into bankruptcy six times, always leaving behind customers and contractors who were cheated and swindled and stopped doing business with him. Well, this time, all of us are paying the price. And we can’t let him get away with it again.

– Michael Bloomberg

At Democratic National Convention.

Facebook, all of them, they’re all about making money. Their business model is to make money at the expense of the truth and the facts…and they defend that.

– Nancy Pelosi

There’s a rule they don’t teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.

– Edwin Land

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

– Steve Jobs

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

– Henry Ford

Sabanci has many years of experience in the tire reinforcement industry, and we are committed to the success of this business through an advanced technology relationship with KoSa and a strong commitment to our customers.

– Guler Sabanci

Just about anyone can make a good product, but it’s the people that count. In the end, it’s the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

– Hamdi Ulukaya

On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.

– Howard Rheingold

It’s true that I tend to daydream. I’m the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It’s my style.

– Gordon Getty

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

– Horatio Nelson

I am starting to hate airports and the whole business of getting onto the plane. It all takes so long I want to scream.

– Greg Wise

We can’t wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.

– Howard Schultz

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

– Henrik Ibsen

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

– Hosea Ballou

I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men’s wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I’m convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.

– George Zimmer

I like doing business with people in India.

– Henrik Fisker

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.

– Herman Cain

Most of the people I know in show business don’t need anybody pushing them at all. They’re extremely aggressive.

– Helen Reddy

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

– Herbert Hoover

If you’re going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

– Glen Mazzara

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

– Harold S. Geneen

I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion.

– Gwynne Shotwell

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain’t got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

– Gladys Knight

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don’t want the public in my house.

– Heidi Klum

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they’re all comatose.

– Harry Chapin

I’ve been fortunate to play many different types of characters thus far. However, I really enjoy playing roles that are different than who I am personally. You can have these small fantasy worlds where you can be people you would otherwise never get to be: a doctor, a lawyer, a ruthless business woman.

– Gina Holden

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

– Greta Van Susteren

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn’t sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you’re a teenager and you go to high school and you’re in the business and you are known.

– Heather Matarazzo

In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around.

– George Kaiser

In this business, you don’t have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you’re on the site.

– Harry Triguboff

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