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Quotes About Business

Art is not the spiritual side of business.
~ Ad Reinhardt
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
~ Michael Medved
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.
~ Ted Malloch
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
~ Philip Wrigley
Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish.
~ Deion Sanders
Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
~ Ernie Harwell
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
~ Pat Cash
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
~ Billy Sunday
Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
~ Rafael Nadal
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
~ Ruud van Nistelrooy
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.
~ Billie Jean King
The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side
~ John Elway
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.
~ Dave Zirin
These 11 questions best elicit true business objectives: 1. What is the ideal outcome you'd like to experience? 2. What results are you trying to accomplish? 3. What better product/service/customer/employee condition are you seeking? 4. Why are you seeking to do this (work/project/engagement)? 5. How would the operation be different as a result of this work?
~ Alan Weiss
You will see an immediate increase in every aspect of business acquisition (meetings, follow-up, suggestions, and so forth), and every aspect of your life once you form the habit of naturally offering options. Why
~ Alan Weiss
The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.
~ Aleister Crowley
In businesses, sir, there are no friends, only associates.
~ Alexander Dumas
A loser's true problem is not account size but overtrading and sloppy money management. He takes risks that are too big for his account size, however small or big. No matter how good his system may be, a streak of bad trades is sure to put him out of business.
~ Alexander Elder
An intelligent businessman takes only risks that will not put him out of business, even if he makes several mistakes in a row.
~ Alexander Elder
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.
~ Alexander McCall Smith