Quotes About Businesses

Businesses and other organizations spend more than six billion hours each year complying with the federal tax code. Estimated compliance costs conservatively top $225 billion annually—costs that are ultimately embedded in retail prices paid by consumers.

Learning requires inefficiency. Businesses, which seek to maximize productivity and profit, would rarely, if ever, accept such a trade-off.

fundamental flaw of modern capitalism is that businesses promote bombastic people. As Cameron Anderson and Sébastien Brion of the University of California, Berkeley, showed experimentally, 'In conditions where there is any ambiguity in competence and performance (which is common in organisations), overconfident individuals will be perceived as more competent by others, and attain higher levels of status, compared to individuals with more accurate self-perceptions of competence.

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

Consistently watch your trademark for potential threats to its integrity stemming from both other businesses and cultural conflicts.

Identify businesses that can generate above-average profits for many years. 2. Wait until the shares of those businesses trade for less than their intrinsic value, and then buy. 3. Hold those shares until either the business deteriorates, the shares become overvalued, or you find a better investment. This holding period should be measured in years, not months. 4. Repeat as necessary.

Wait until the shares of those businesses trade for less than their intrinsic value, and buy.

Network-based businesses tend to create natural monopolies and oligopolies.

Dans notre société, quelles sont les classes qui aiment le travail pour le travail ? Les paysans propriétaires, les petits bourgeois, qui les uns courbés sur leurs terres, les autres acoquinés dans leurs boutiques, se remuent comme la taupe dans sa galerie souterraine, et jamais ne se redressent pour regarder à loisir la nature.

South Florida, home to shallow traditions and feigned loyalties, fast-buck artists and fly-by-night businesses.

A cash flow statement is simple to calculate because you can easily track what goes in and what goes out. Income statements are a little different (especially for businesses) because they take into account things that aren't technically cash flow (such as depreciation or amortization).