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The private ownership of great art, its seclusion from the general view of men and women, let alone from that of interested amateurs and scholars, is a curious business. The literal disappearance of a Turner or a Van Gogh into some Middle Eastern or Latin-American bank vault to be kept as investment and collateral, the sardonic decision of a Greek shipping tycoon to put an incomparable El Greco on his yacht, where it hangs at persistent risk — these are phenomena that verge on vandalism.
George Steiner— "The Cleric of Treason"
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
thomas jefferson— Letter to George Washington (4 January 1786)
For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
vera brittain— Chapter 11
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.
stephen colbert— A parody of the "Give a man a fish..." proverb alluding to the subprime mortgage crisis of the aughts on The Colbert Report (14 May 2008)
You need your family in this business. It's one of the most important things to keep you grounded. You come home and your mom's like, "Clean the kitty's litter box." It's not like it's all about me.
kirsten dunst— Interview in The Guardian (14 October 2000)
Napoleon said Britain is a nation of shopkeepers and a shopkeeper is an entrepreneur he or she is a small business person. That’s exactly what we are.
— Theo Paphitis, Greek Cypriot born British entrepreneur. ‘Theo Pathitis: Business Adventurer’, an interview on The Open University’s website, open2.net, published on 23 December 2009
The UFO research and investigation business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps of corrupt ideology run free, agenda dictates, delusion is rampant and ignorance prevails. The infestation of wrongful motivation and the beggarly depths of belief reign supreme amidst a universal disregard for truth and factual actuality... where good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side . . .
kenny young— E-mail from Young to fellow Ufologists Sean Feeney and Paul Koch on December 26, 2001.
Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".
paul a. baran— Chapter Three, Standstill And Movement Under Monopoly Capitalism, I, p. 77
We mean by "politics" the people's business the most important business there is.
adlai stevenson— Speech in Chicago, Illinois (19 November 1955).
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the ?rst task of statesmanship.
— President Theodore Roosevelt, "The Progressive Covenant With The People" speech (1912)
A tiny sun and moon spin around them, on a complicated orbit to induce seasons, so probably nowhere else in the multiverse is it sometimes necessary for an elephant to cock a leg to allow the sun to go past. Exactly why this should be may never be known. Possibly the Creator of the universe got bored with all the usual business of axial inclination, albedos and rotational velocities, and decided to have a bit of fun for once.
terry pratchett— Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (1989)
Advertise your business. Do not hide your light under a bushel.
— P. T. Barnum. ‘Sundry Business Enterprises’, Ch XIV, ‘Barnum’s Rules for Success in Business’, The Life of P. T. Barnum, 1855.
The mechanism of modern business is so delicate that extreme care must be taken not to interfere with it in a spirit of rashness or ignorance.
theodore roosevelt— First Annual Message to Congress (1901).
The true entrepreneur is one who thinks laterally, about how to make a second business out of the first.
— Evan Davis (British economist, journalist and presenter), Dragons’ Den: Success from Pitch to Profit (2007), Part 3: Know the Business, p. 245
Every man (who is of sufficient understanding to be responsible for his actions) is supposed to be cognizant of the law, as it is the rule by which every subject of the kingdom is to be governed, and therefore it is his business to know it.
— Willes, J., King v. Shipley (1784), 3 Doug. 177
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) stood up, i.e. on the day of Badr, and said: Uthman has gone off on the business of Allah and His Apostle, and I shall take the oath of allegiance on his behalf. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then allotted him a share, but did not do so for anyone else who was absent.
— Narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar
— Sunan Abu Dawud: Book 14, Number 2720.
I retired from public business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
george mason— Letter to Arthur Campbell (7 May 1783)
This business of womanhood is a heavy burden? And these days it is worse, with the poverty of blackness on one side and the weight of womanhood on the other.
Tsitsi Dangarembga— Nervous Conditions, chapter 1 (1988)
'You're a Christian?' 'Church of England,'said Mr Polly. 'Mm,'said the employer, a little checked.'For good all round business work, I should have preferred a Baptist.'
— 1909 The History of Mr Polly, ch.3, pt.2.
We have?fought for our place in the sun and have won it.It will be my business to seethat we retain this place in the sun unchallenged.
Kaiser Wilhelm II— 1901Speech in Hamburg,18 Jun. Quoted in TheTimes, 20 Jun.
The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.
saul gorn— Paul Griffiths (2006) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management. p.129
I have need of the sky,I have business with the grass;I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheelingLone and high,And the slow clouds go by.I will get me away to the waters that glassThe clouds as they pass.I will get me away to the woods.
richard hovey— "I have Need of the Sky", p. 56.
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
dwight l. moody— P. 73. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
Menander— Khaireas (Dyskolos)
Like many works of literature , Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth , prestige , and power . But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production .
— Alex Tabarrok, in CEO Movie Villains (Quotes)
I see an entrepreneur as the chief designer of a business that works better than any other.
— Michael E. Gerber (b.1936), American small business guru and author, ‘A Conversation with Michael Gerber’, from an interview posted on Businessweek.com website, 24 March 2008
A central concern of macroeconomics is the upswings and downswings in the level of real output called the business cycle. The business cycle consists of alternating periods of economic growth and contraction. business cycles are inherent in market economies.
Irvin Tucker— Macroeconomics for Today. (2008, p. 150)
est was developed from the beginning as a well-organized business enterprise, structured to maximize profits and minimize tax liabilities. Its major corporate arm, Transformational Technologies, is an extreme example of the rationality that pervades some such movements that have as a major goal the maximizing of profit. By 1988, it had trained nearly 400,000 people, all of whom had taken the two-weekend, 60-hour training session, paying a sizable fee ($400 per person) for so doing. est grossed some $30 million dollars in 1981, and it was claimed that one of every nine San Francisco Bay Area college-educated young people had gone through the training.
— Richardson, James T. (1998). "est (THE FORUM)". in Swatos, Jr., William H.. Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira. pp. 167-168. ISBN 0761989560.
Never before in the history of our State have Oregonians had so much to be congratulated upon. No State in the Union is receiving more attention. Her agricultural products, her mild climate, her great natural resources, invite the immigrant, the capitalist and the pleasure seeker, while the sound basis upon which rest her finances, and the fact that within two years her taxable property has increased more than ten millions of dollars, clearly indicate that the State, in the face of a general business depression throughout the land, is in no danger of deterioration of decay.
Zenas Ferry moody— Governor Zenas F. Moody – Biennial Message, 1885. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State.
