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    In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
    Is offering too little and asking too much.
    The French are with equal advantage content--
    So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.

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There's no business like show business.

There's no business like show business.

by Irving Berlin Found in: Business Quotes,
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Our favourite holding period is forever.

Our favourite holding period is forever.

by Warren Buffett Found in: Business Quotes,
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Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself read more

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure

by George W. Bush Found in: Business Quotes,
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around read more

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

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When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold read more

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and
barren.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Business Quotes,
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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from read more

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Business Quotes,
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who read more

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

by William Wordsworth Found in: Business Quotes,
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't read more

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

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