Quote by James Buchan
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was s

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

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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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power
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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Nature
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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan

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Money
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Well theres nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and its his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have – there are other things in life besides politics. – Caroline Kennedy

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Business

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

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I wasnt looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world. – Giada De Laurentiis

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Business

Ive managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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Business

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Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. – David Ogilvy

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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. – Honore de Balzac

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Im very comfortable with failure. Im very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. – Steven Soderbergh

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Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Food