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“In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.”

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Author:George Burns

“You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is "Sound," and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.”

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Author:Pauline Kael

“Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.”

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Author:Frank Pierson

“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.”

“I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.”

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Author:Fred Wilson

“I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Politics is just show business for ugly people.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.”

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Author:Tyra Banks

“Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.”

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Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“I hate show business.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.”

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Author:Carroll O'Connor

“Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.”

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Author:Carroll O'Connor

“There's no business like show business.”

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Author:Irving Berlin

“I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.”

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Author:Ethel Waters

“Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.”

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Author:Ethel Waters

“We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.”

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Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Some people serve with pride - because they 'want to' do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they 'have to' do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show?”

“I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.”

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Author:Elvis Presley