#sine

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.' ↗

— Count Basie

#announce #basie #beware #biggest #business

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life. ↗

— Count Basie

#big #business #doing #i #life

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit. ↗

— Shirley Bassey

#because #bit #business #decided #i

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#business #business model #complain #declining #either

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#borders #business #corresponding #dramatic #eating

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real. ↗

— David Antin

#contradictory #disney #fortune #idea #imaginary

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #business #come #company #confined

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#businesses #executives #highly #many #paid

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. ↗

— Richard Bach

#best #business #give #i #make

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. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#counsel #execution #fit #fitter #invent