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- All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- If we burn ourselves out with drugs or alcohol, we won't have long to go in this business.
- John Belushi, Playboy Interview - May 1977
- I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - ), Playboy Interview - May 1969
- Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
- Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
- No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
- Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
- Andrew Young
- Hurting people is my business.
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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