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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that is not making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Creative people do not behave very well generally. If you are looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you are gonna be depressed real fast. I do not have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She is my first priority.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it is virtually impossible. It is very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

When I started my last business, I did not receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can not handle that pressure.

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it is somebody else secretary, fine.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.