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You know, I'm just grateful to be in this business and to be able to stay in it.

That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.

God will forgive me; that's his business.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

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.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.

If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Business is other people's money.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.

I don't think Indian e-commerce companies have an evolved business model.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.