Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. 1.52K
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don’t go buy one. Please. That’s a sin. Let’s get these puppy mills out of business. 707
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. 1.96K
I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. 1.48K
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. 686
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. 733
I love making people laugh and feel good, and that’s awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it’s on a major scale, or whether it’s in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing. 733
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? 723
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. 1.37K
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. 1.67K
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature. 1.39K
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. 1.45K
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it’s been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. 1.37K
