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• Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

  Felix Dennis

  Men, Magazines, Business Man

  "Beating the big boys at their own game" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2005.

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• I think Katie Price is a really good businesswoman. She has made so much money.

  Georgia Salpa

  Thinking, Made, Katie

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• It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Night, Long

  "Cashing in on political comedy" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. September 22, 2012.

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• The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!

  Faith Ringgold

  Letting Go, Running, Fear

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• I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

  John Paul DeJoria

  People, Guy, Together

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• I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

  Pele

  Heart, Thinking, Too Much

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• They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

  Jack Abramoff

  Business, Realizing, Spending

  "Jack in a Box". Adam Zagorin, content.time.com. April 30, 2005.

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• I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

  Stuart Rose

  Leader, Waiting, Innovation

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• War is good business Invest your son

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, Son, Your Son

  Allen Ginsberg (1972). “The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971: Pocket Poets Number 30”, p.137, City Lights Books

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• I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.

  Bob Dole

  Book, Mean, Guy

  "Cabinet members defend Bush from O'Neill". edition.cnn.com. January 12, 2004.

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• If you start hustling then don't pay a person what they deserve, pay them what they accept. That's good business. Even if you're not hustlin' pay them what they accept because you can capitalize off of people.

  Curtis Jackson

  People, Hustle, Pay

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• There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, Men, Lazy Man

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my daddy. I thought we were poor because he was not a good businessman and I was going to become the lawyer who would take charge of the business.

  John Hope Franklin

  Home, College, Daddy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.

  Adam McKay

  Running, People, Belief

  Source: collider.com

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• Good business should contain something for both parties.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Party, Should

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• A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

  John Allen Paulos

  Son, Boys, Roman Numerals

  John Allen Paulos (2013). “Beyond Numeracy”, p.23, Vintage

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• A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Country, Maturity, Prejudice

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.101

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• Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

  Warren Buffett

  Dumb, Banking, Very Good

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• Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

  Andrew Tan

  Successful, Technology, People

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• So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

  Michael Jackson

  Leaving, Agents, Half

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• I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Judging, Done

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• Markets come and go. Good business don't.

  Fred Wilson

  Comes And Goes

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• I called it Kinko’s because of my nickname — because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the first thing a baby learns is ‘Googoo, gaga,’ and if you think of good businesses like Kodak, Xerox, Google, people remember consonants — which was why Kinko’s was a good name. But really I had this big head of curly hair and before being called ‘Kinko’ I was ‘Pube Head.’ So I thought Kinko’s was better than Pubo’s.

  Paul Orfalea

  Baby, Thinking, Curly Hair

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• As to the meaning of "corporate social responsibility," Friedman and I would agree: If a certain action improves the corporation's bottom line, there's no point in labeling it "socially responsible." It's just good business.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Responsibility, Lines

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