Funny Business Quotes - Page 4

• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Life, Friendship

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  William Edward Hickson

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Try and Try Again". Poem by William Edward Hickson,

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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Success, Sarcastic

  "Writer, colorful gay figure Quentin Crisp dead at 90". www.cnn.com. November 21, 1999.

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• The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Sarcastic, Writing, Monkeys

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• Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

  Steve Jobs

  Money, Business, Apples

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• The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

  Larry Niven

  Father, Son, Advice

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• I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Laughter, Book, Journey

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

  Alan Clark

  Senior, Party, Political

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• If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

  Kirk Kirkpatrick

  Funny, Success, Humorous

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• There's no business like show business.

  Irving Berlin

  Business, Office Work, Berlin

  Title of song (1946)

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• In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Boss

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• Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

  William Kittredge

  Writing, Voice, Rooms

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• The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

  Steve Jobs

  Winning, Tragedy, Lost

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• Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

  David Ogilvy

  President, Vices, Revolution

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• Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Love Is, Faces

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• I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

  Hans Fallada

  Block, Stupid, People

  Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.65, Melville House

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• There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

  W. H. Auden

  Matter, Three, Financial

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Oil, Use

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959..

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• Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.

  Patricia Hampl

  Writing, Mirrors, Hands

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• I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess-we're not connected to the press room yet, are we?

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, Rooms, Faces

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• It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

  Lauren Oliver

  Coffee, Lines, Way

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The most popular labor saving device is still money.

  Phyllis George

  Money, Memorable, Saving

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• I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Remember, Like You

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