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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
Business

"My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone."

Thinking Men Business
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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman
Business

"For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive."

Business Hot Cracks
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Ali al-Naimi Politician
Business

"Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role."

Real Business Expectations
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Ali al-Naimi Politician
Business

"We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties."

Jobs Business Oil
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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Business

"Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?"

Wise Business Add
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Walter Russell Artist, Author, Philosopher
Business

"In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends."

Men Business Loss
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
Business

"The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price."

Giving Long Business
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
Business

"Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed."

Writing Government Business
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
Business

"None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do.""

Men Mean Business
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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
Business

"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time."

Inspirational Business Fear
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
Business

"When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while."

Want Business Oscars
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Sarah Bernhardt Actress, Playwright
Business

"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."

Country Business Critical Moments
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Theodore Parker Transcendentalist, Minister
Business

"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."

Men Taken Business
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