Quotes About Business

In politics," said John Lindsay, "the perception is the reality." So, too, in advertising, in business, and in life.

Take facsimile, for example. Over the past two decades, the facsimile has become an indispensable part of every company's communication portfolio. Americans will send 65 billion pages of faxes this year, more than 230 per person. And 50 percent of all international telephone calls are now fax calls.

Sunday evenings had long saddened me, reminders of death, unfinished business, guilt, and loss.

Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.

at least to resist the approach of Alfred Humblot at Ollendorf and Jacques Madeleine at Fasquelle, which Proust defined as, 'the self-satisfaction felt by busy men - however idiotic their business - at not having time to do what you are doing'.

It follows that there are two ways to increase your profitability: Either reduce your costs or increase your revenues. In the old economy, reducing your costs worked best. In the new economy, increasing your revenue works much, much better.

Change is impossible until senior business executives realize that software problems are not technical issues, but are significant business issues.

When today's executives regard programming the same as manufacturing, they imagine that reducing the cost of programming is similarly simple and effective. Unfortunately, those rules don't apply anymore.

The intractability of the software-construction process—particularly the high cost of programming and the low quality of interaction—is simply not a technical problem. It is the result of business practices imposed on a discipline—software programming—for which they are obsolete.

you market and advertise those goods, and when you receive orders, you forward those orders to the supplier. Your supplier then directly ships the products listed on the order to your client from their own warehouse at their own shipping cost.

She finds herself suspicious of religious zeal that has a business plan.

Sanctuary business," Valkyrie pointed out. "It's just a murder. Cameron Light didn't even work for the Sanctuary." "It is an official Sanctuary investigation, which

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Even at the depths of the Depression, editors and business leaders insisted that jobs were available if men would only hunt for them.

business is neither a burden to bear nor a battle to win, but a chance to outgrow fear by helping others outgrow theirs. This

When the customer makes a request and Babulal reacts immediately; thus does Sesha turn into Adi. Babulal can return to the Sesha state or stir Ananta in the customer by a simple question, "Anything else you wish to buy?" This one question provokes thoughts and ideas in the customer's mind, infinite ideas are unfurled, and there is a possibility of more business.

To build a business, we need decision-makers and decision-followers. He who takes decisions is the karta. He who follows decisions is called a karya-karta.

Business is about seduction. To increase market size, we have to seduce customers who have never used our product or service.

Often in business we take decisions based on how we interpret the situation, not being sure of whether the call we have taken will work or not. When it works, we are often taken by surprise. But the world at large demands an explanation.

Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.

She's smart and full of business," she said, "and she sure knows how to get things done. You, though." She nodded. "You a real human being.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?