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Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

My business is hurting people.

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.

Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.