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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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• 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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• It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

  Tori Amos

  Betrayal, Emotional, Musician

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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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• A good businessman sees where others don't see.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Business, Businessman

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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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• 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 exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Race, Names

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Art, Independence, Grows

  "'I've always been the outsider'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2008.

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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 we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Country, Determination, Children

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• There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Majority, Demand, Return

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.21, Penguin

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• A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

  Bill Gates

  Events, Needs, Able

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people. . . . Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Dedication, People

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• I still believe that for good business analysts a concentrated portfolio is a good strategy combined with a long term horizon. Once again, the secret to success in following the formula strategy is patience, a quality in short supply for both professionals and individual investors alike. I think investors should have a large portion of their assets in equities over time.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

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• Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

  Charlie Munger

  Littles, Management

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• I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

  Jack Nicholson

  People, Actors, Remember

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Marriage, Fool, Earth

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• A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Business, News, Noses

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• This is NOT a pretty good business. You cannot be pretty good and be a national headliner. That becomes the allure.

  Jay Mohr

  Allure

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

  Daymond John

  Struggle, Ideas, Payroll Tax

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