Quotes About Business

when Henry, Emanuel and Mayer Lehman decided to leave the family cattle business in Bavaria, they chose by instinct or luck to settle in Montgomery, Alabama, a hub of the cotton trade. The

I never trust anyone who proclaims his morality from the pulpit. That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises. He's not likely to change his mind about that.

She put the point to her father, as they hung around the court, waiting for their case to come up. He said: "I never trust anyone who proclaims his morality from the pulpit. That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises. He's not likely to change his mind about that.

That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises.

No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.

look at all the newspapers and business journal newspapers in every major Western city via the Internet.

Business creates liquidity; real estate creates wealth.

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.

The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

The best system I've ever seen for intellectual distribution is the direct selling business-also known as one-to-one marketing, network marketing, referral marketing or relationship marketing.

Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

Many people like myself who teach marketing start the course by saying, 'We're not about manipulating consumers, we're about discovering needs and meeting them,' " said Eric Johnson of Columbia University. "And then, if you're in the field awhile, you realize, yes, we can manipulate consumers.

In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.