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If you are an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

It is better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

You can not run a business or anything else on a theory.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It is a catch-22. It is called show business: The word business is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it is egotism.

It is a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that is what it takes to be in show business.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it is around the world.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One?s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Never discuss public business while drinking.

Public business should be conducted publicly.

Business is thirty percent patience.

The business of America is business.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Business? it?s quite simple: it?s other people?s money.