Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.
What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
We men of business, who serve a House, are not our own masters. We have to think of the House more than ourselves
Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice.
I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence. -St.John Rivers
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.
I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.
It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
Therefore let us sell our labour for what it is worth. And if an industry cannot buy our labour, let that industry die. But let us not sell our labour cheap to keep an industry alive.
And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably. Still, somehow this line of thought wasn't as consoling as it should have been; the idea of all those years of life in hand was a galling reminder!
As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?
Sentiment going forward is cautious, which seems to be a trend in this economic recovery cycle, but capital spending plans are firm, indicating that companies are continuing to push ahead in business activity despite a cautious stance.
We are all on the same trip in the band. We all realize that people in the music business, and the audience have an eye on us because collectively our history is extensive.
Completion of this transaction strengthens our balance sheet, increases shareholder value and allows us to focus more of our energies on our core railroad business,
I try to avoid doing any business on the golf course, ... because my golf is so bad it might lead someone to try to take advantage of me on the grounds that my business sense must be as bad as my golf skills.
Initially, we took the administration policy and put it in the bill just to clarify and give certainty to the industry on what they could and couldn't do, ... But I have agreed to do hearings in committee, and go through the regular process, and bring it to the floor later this year as a stand-alone bill or as a part of another piece of legislation.
There is going to be expectations and big-girl responsibilities that she can pass on right now because she's not officially representing a company she's not an ambassador for the sport as a professional. That becomes a different deal when it becomes a business. I think the pace is just a little too accelerated.
I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.
Passage of a flat tax is a necessary predicate to my retiring from Congress, ... As my Democratic colleagues have come to understand that, their willingness to co-sponsor my bill has definitely gone up.
While our customers desire great-tasting food, prepared fast and at a good value, each divergent group wants something very different from us. Although we are meeting many of the needs, we have learned we have an opportunity within an important growth engine in our industry.
The venture industry is notorious for chasing the flavor of the day. There's currently not a huge appetite for paying big bucks for emerging tech companies.
We will have to have the trained work force if the industry is going to be permanent, ... We don't want them to ship that beautiful film shot in Louisiana back to California for post-production work.
This industry is declining. It's heading into oblivion. We don't want that to happen.
Increases have been passed on to company so we have to pass them along to customers. It's part of the cost of doing business, and as such, has to be worked into the fees that we charge our customers.
It's bad enough when you have a lot of driveways created along a stretch of highway. It's worse to have driveways created at an intersection where it is known that traffic is on the increase. It's not good business.
The Bush administration has been unwilling to go after businesses with economic sanctions.
It's a great business tool and a wonderful way to grow our business, ... I believe there are many opportunities we could not have taken advantage of had we not had the aircraft.
Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
This is our business. We still have time left and we just can't take it for granted. You want to play for your team, at least for yourself and your family and your teammates. I didn't let it slack last year and I think we need to stay focused and continue to work.
I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor.
We do give preference to the lower volume renter. It's simply a resource allocation. We don't have to do it too often. We prefer not to have to do it at all. The realities are of business that sometimes we have to make tough decisions.
Obviously, it's not an ideal situation. But I can tell you that this (decision) in no way prevents us from entering the direct-selling business, which we plan to do by the holiday season in 2006.
I would think it's something that will deserve consideration at some point. But first, they have to find a deal they're interested in, and nothing at this point appears to be on the front burner. I assume that teams will sit back and make decisions closer to the trade deadline.
Recent strength in monthly revenue, coupled with solid subscriber additions, is driving excellent top-line growth in our business.
Based upon the information known to use today, we believe that sales in the upcoming quarter will be between 3.35 and 3.45 billion. We anticipate continued stability in our components sales throughout the world will result in worldwide component sales between 2.6 and 2.65 billion. We expect traditional seasonal growth in our Enterprise Computing Solutions business, resulting in worldwide computer products sales between 750 and 800 million.
Perhaps the current downsizing of the U.S. IT industry is not a temporary thing. Maybe we are headed for becoming a second-class citizen in the world of IT.
Only days after we fully complied with a NAFTA decision, Canada responds by announcing huge new subsidies. Canada's actions illustrate what the United States has been saying all along the Canadian industry is the beneficiary of subsidies that create an un-level playing field to the detriment of the U.S. industry.
The 8 billion (rental) business isn't going to disappear. This isn't buggy whip time. Everybody's got a DVD player.
In Stephen Davis, InfoSpace has found exactly the right leader to grow and expand our mobile entertainment business. Steve's success in running major production and content companies has given him insight that will be invaluable to InfoSpace as we focus more intently on media programming and consumer behavior. I am very pleased that Steve is joining us, and I look forward to the increased focus and drive his leadership will bring InfoSpace.
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
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