Quotes About Business

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.

The New Yorker magazine's cartoons of the plump, terrified Wall Streeter were accurate; business was terrified of the president. But the cartoons did not depict the consequences of that intimidation: that businesses decided to wait Roosevelt out, hold on to their cash, and invest in future years.

A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

As former CIA Director Leon Panetta wrote, covert action "is a hard business of agonizing choices.

Five guys?" Medina asked, horrified. "Where'd they all fit?" Cotton shrugged. "Well, we all worked in porn, so sometimes up each other's asses. But once you quit the business, you pay extra rent for that single bed, you know?

Demeter's Grove was a "new age" kind of store, as they were calling them these days, and Autumn sold everything from incense and candles to especially elemental stones to clothing to books. She was used to inviting all kinds of strangers and friends into her kitchen; demonstrations- cooking, baking, tincture or poultice-making- were another dimension of her business.

Everyone with a camera and a set of draperies runs a portrait studio. Miss

Some businessmen make deals even if the date of the deal coincides with funeral of their mothers. I like this kind of business people

The market doesn't sleep.

No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.

Follow these guidelines for writing effective memos and business email: • Clearly identify the subject. • Begin with the most important information: depending on the memo's purpose, you may have to provide background information

markup of 40% results in a price of $61,705. You could reasonably establish a price anywhere within that range.

Every idiot invests in Internet bookkeeping and software firms these days. That's how you can earn millions on companies that aren't earning a cent of profit," McCaine said. "But when you get down to the essence of it then only things like energy, raw materials, food, and water have true value.

Tim Ferriss's version of geoarbitrage – using cheap production and labor in one part of the world and selling to high-paying customers in the West

In fact, regression analysis demonstrates that the number one determinant of deal multiples is the growth rate of the business.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets.

My father owned some Laundromats, and when I was 10, he had me in there making change and being an attendant. He taught me that on weekends, you had to get up and go to work. That has been a big help in acting.

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.