Quotes About Business

Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Sir, if Tang can't avoid the Mexican fishing fleet," O'Kane replied, "she doesn't have any business going on patrol.

Even the highest compensation is a tiny fraction of the value created by many business and technical innovations. The problem with executive compensation in the United States is not with this idea. The problem is that in many cases the high compensation levels persist even when innovations do not occur and reactions to the innovations of others are slow.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

My whole life I have lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

In frantically trying to help God run His business by establishing visible and impressive cathedrals and headquarters on earth, we might have actually unwittingly hindered Him, because these structures may have shouted glory to humanity so loudly that we've drowned out the glory of the Lamb in the process.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Like many very rich people, Ford did not have to sell himself; Iacocca knew no other way. "He had a lot of ability," Ford later said of Iacocca. "Unfortunately his ability lies ninety-nine percent in sales. But it isn't only in selling cars—it's selling everything.

The "big wheels" of Detroit, as a local society writer called them, appeared at the Ford Auditorium's semicircular front drive in midnight-black limos and emerged in dark tuxedos and dark business suits. It was a warm night, but that did not curtail the number of women wearing mink stoles over short, bright-colored dresses with matching satin shoes.

Men needed the test of competition to find their better selves, Lombardi insisted, whether it was in sports, politics or business.

Barack Obama is the most successful new marketer in history. Study his campaign so that you can adapt the ideas for your business.

if people weren't sinners, every intelligence network would be out of business

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

Carnegie survived and triumphed in an environment rife with cronyism and corruption. Much of the capital invested in his iron and steel companies was derived from business activities that might be today, but were not at the time, regarded as immoral

Conversation, the gradual unveiling of oneself, one's quirks and characteristics, opinions and beliefs; what a fraught and awkward business that is.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.