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Politicians also have a love affair with the small business exemption. Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead its an admission that the costs of a regulation just cant be justified. – John Sununu

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. Thats the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy. – Theresa May

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you dont pry into other peoples business. – Maya Lin

Ive learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them. – Eli Wallach

Everybodys business is nobodys business, and nobodys business is my business. – Clara Barton

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over Gods business. – Flannery OConnor

Anything that isnt opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesnt matter. – Russell Baker

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalisms problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. – Russell Baker

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. – Russell Baker

And then theres all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. Im always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. – Shirley Manson

In this business, if you dont pay your debts youre finished. – Roger Stone

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, Ill walk away from show business. But I dont want to walk away empty-handed. – Dave Chappelle

Im not really in the excuse business. – Bill Parcells

Its a real roller-coaster ride if youre lucky to have longevity in this business – you have to be able to ride those waves. – Jennifer Lopez

Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply wont be got rid of. – Anita Brookner

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didnt have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didnt want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business. – Christopher Walken

You just cant get too focused on worrying about whats going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term. – James Sinegal

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the 50s, thats affected my personality to the point that Im a little different. – Christopher Walken

Im in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Ive made movies that I thought were good. Ive made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes youre in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that – because youre good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But thats show business. – Christopher Walken