Quotes About Business

The biggest single problem since 1980 has been that the publishing industry has been led by the nose by the retail sector. The industry analyzes its strategies as though it were Procter and Gamble. It's Hermès. It's selling to a bunch of effete, educated snobs who read. Not very many people read. Most of them drag their knuckles around and quarrel and make money. We're selling books. It's a tiny little business. It doesn't have to be Walmartized.

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

adding value to people's lives beyond their traditional thoughts about our business

Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'

It has been shown many times that any organisation that loses access to its data for more than 10 days is very likely to go out of business.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

No," said Adrian, "but I met Johns at a lunch not long afterwards and he was still weak from the effects. He said he had never been given so much advice about the publishing trade in his life. I rather gathered that Tony had offered to go into partnership with him and show him how the business ought to be run.

Mrs. Barton asked her about the new litter, and whether she had sold all her last litter but one, but Sally gave such stupid answers that Mrs. Barton came to the conclusion she was thinking of mating Chloe again, a business which always occupied Sally's mind very fully, as the lurcher did not see eye to eye with her mistress about husbands, preferring natural worth to Norman blood.

The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

I saw the business of writing for what it truly was and is to me. It is your penance for not being lucky. It is an attempt to reach others and to make them love you.

and, after satisfying himself that the business was being looked after, disappeared again into the busy street. They suspected that their days in Hilltop Road were numbered, that Ostrovski would dispossess

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

Give me a business that's family-owned and operated anytime. And I'm talking about a local family, not one that lives in Arkansas.

But I've come to realize writing's not a noble calling. Like you said, it's all about marketing, isn't it?

Vera chuckled and thought this woman wasn't so different from her after all. They were in the same business. Clearing unpleasantness from the streets so that respectable people could continue their daily lives in blissful ignorance.

This was what Vera missed, now she had to spend so long at her desk. The prying and nebbing into other folk's business.

Few incumbents will succeed in deploying blockchain applications to enable new business models. The innovator's dilemma will prevail. Even if they aspire to, they must first get their feet wet within their business boundaries.