Own Business Quotes - Page 4

• My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

  Ray Charles

  Mom, Thinking, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that.

  Alexis Bledel

  Kids, Community, Foundation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.

  Robert Greene

  Believe, Artist, Dna

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Mind Your Own Business, Ninety

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• I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.

  Sara Blakely

  Running, Believe, Race

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• I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

  Rick Astley

  Uncles, Dad, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.

  Daniel Boulud

  Years, May, Six

  "The Daniel Boulud Experience". Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

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• All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Worry, Support, Challenges

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• If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

  Aristotle

  Men, Perfect, Good Man

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

  Aristotle

  Men, Progress, Complaining

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2004, Princeton University Press

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• It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Government, Hands, Balance

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• I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

  Johnny Carson

  Hurt, Trying, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Reading, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, 2003.

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• Who people like is their own business. It don't concern me. I know what I do - and I'm having a lot of fun with the women that I'm with.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fun, People, Concern

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Mind Your Own Business, Liberty

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.104, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

  Seimone Augustus

  Jobs, Want, Plans

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• Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt.  If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them.  If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

  David Knopfler

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, People, Entertainment

  "Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan'". Interview with Ben Steverman, www.bloomberg.com. July 26, 2010.

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• There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.

  Christian Finnegan

  Smart, Names, Two

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• Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.231, Xist Publishing

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• (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Thug, Years, Cities

  "White House faces new racial crisis in Baltimore" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2015.

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• Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

  Phil Vischer

  Thinking, Ideas, Firsts

  "Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables". Publisher's Weekly review of Phil Vischer's book, www.publishersweekly.com. October 09, 2006.

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• There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hands, Two, Mind Your Own Business

  "The Liberty Manifesto". P. J. O'Rourke's Speech for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.

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• Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Men, Play, People

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• I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Running, Real, Believe

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