Quotes About Business

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don't.

Have you no friends who could help you in these circumstances?' Morrel smiled sadly and said: 'In business, Monsieur, as you very well know, one has no friends, only associates.

A crestfallen capitalist is like a comet: he always warns of some great misfortune to come.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and the life would diminish, the total of the amount.

In business, sir, said he, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Ma foi," said Danglars, "it would not be a bad speculation

If I were sole owner we'd shake hands on it now, my dear Dantes, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—'He who has a partner has a master.

Bien sabéis, caballero -contestó-, que en el comercio no hay amigos, sino socios.

By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed seriatim, the law takes care to preserve in the legislative body a nucleus of men already accustomed to public business, and capable of exercising a salutary influence upon the junior members.

To meddle in the government of society and to speak about it is the greatest business and, so to speak, the only pleasure that an American knows.

The desire to grow rich at all costs, the taste for business, the passion for gain, the pursuit of comfort and material enjoyment are thus the most common preoccupations in despotisms.

Te encanta, ¿no es cierto? Amenazas... Pandillas... Maleantes... La vida de la cloaca. —Es la gente, Jake. Es la vida. Es mi negocio»

Do his business, she say. Do his business. Why, Miss Celie. You make it sound like he going to the toilet on you.

But if he and Linda composed together, they stood to earn a higher share, since unlike Paul, Linda was not under contract to Northern Songs and could route her part in the collaboration through another publisher—specifically, McCartney Music, Inc., the publishing arm of the newly formed McCartney Productions Ltd.

W ?wiecie biznesu korzystne pierwsze wra?enie jest jak mi?o?? od pierwszego wejrzenia.

I believed in what I had to offer and the money was significant to my business, so I was going to fight for it." Lisa presented to a large audience despite her fear because of Anna's support.

What most business, political and civil leaders have not yet clearly understood is a simple fact: An advanced economy needs an advanced society, for every economy is a product of the society in which it is embedded and is dependent on its key institutions.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

You are a king. You have no business talking about the right thing.

But that's war for you. An ugly business that only leaves bad men better off. Why folk insisted on singing about great warriors all the time, Rikke couldn't have said. Why not sing about really good fishermen, or bakers, or roofers, or some other folk who actually left the world a better place, rather than heaping up corpses and setting fire to things? Was that behaviour to encourage?