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Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required. – James Buchan

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

A shady business never yields a sunny life. – B. C. Forbes

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. – Russell Baker

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. – Martin Feldstein

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third. – Kit Bond

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. – Peter Fonda

Business is tough you need tough guys. – Carlos Ghosn

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. – Billie Jean King

My home has always been show business. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. – Twyla Tharp

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. – Twyla Tharp

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. – V. S. Naipaul

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. – V. S. Naipaul

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. – Kevin Mitnick

You have got to have discipline and focus – on the customer and how you run the business. – Jim Cantalupo

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies. – Christopher Walken

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. – Marvin Bower

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor. – Christopher Walken