Quotes About Business

I believe exercise makes people smarter, psychologically braver, more creative, more energetic, and more influential. In an online article about twenty habits of successful people, the second item on the list is exercise five to seven days a week. Other studies back this notion–physical fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.

The business model of the press manipulated our brains until our emotions overwhelmed whatever traces of rationality we started with.

Fitness is a simple thing made absurdly complicated by market forces.

I once wore a professional disguise and infiltrated a high-level business meeting just to get material for the Dilbert comic strip. On

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking. From that point through today, the business model of the press changed from presenting information to manipulating brains.

Other studies back this notion—physical fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.

And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of "free trade," the United States continued to finance and do business with both sides in the conflict, growing ever richer while Europe bled.

once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

Whether it's family, dating, business, or marriage relationship; if you really want to build them, then invest in its friendships.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

hard-working Krafve explains gamely that when a company

Whether the nostalgia of the Edsel boys for the Edsel runs to the humorous or to the tragic, it is a thought-provoking phenomenon. Maybe it means merely that they miss the limelight they first basked in and later squirmed in, or maybe it means that a time has come when—as in Elizabethan drama but seldom before in American business—failure can have a certain grandeur that success never knows.

American Telephone & Telegraph, the largest company of them all,

Furthermore, I found it seductive. In fact, I was in danger of becoming a slave. Business has its man-eating side, and part of the man-eating side is that it's so absorbing.

Business people who are otherwise meticulous in their observance of the law seem to regard copyright infringement about as seriously as they regard jaywalking.

The upshot of the distinctions [making business travel & entertainment tax-deductible] is to put a direct premium on the habit— which some people have considered all too prevalent for many years anyhow— of talking business at all hours of the day and night, and in all kinds of company.

While I can't conceive that this business will ever seem enough, an end of itself, to make up a satisfactory life, yet the busy-ness, the activity, the crises, the gambles, the management problems I must face, the judgment about people, all combine to make something far from dull.

maybe it means that a time has come when—as in Elizabethan drama but seldom before in American business—failure can have a certain grandeur that success never knows.

Nathan Greene, special counsel to Lazard Frères, who was on the board for a while. Greene was a kind of business father confessor to me. I remember his saying, 'You think you'll make your pile and then be independent. My friend, in Wall Street you don't just win your independence at one stroke. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, you have to win your independence over again every day.' I found that he was right about that.

January 18, 1953: I am now definitely committed [to Minerals & Chemicals] for not less than three more years … and morally committed to see the thing through. While I can't conceive that this business will ever seem enough, an end of itself, to make up a satisfactory life, yet the busy-ness, the activity, the crises, the gambles, the management problems I must face, the judgment about people, all combine to make something far from dull.

Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called trade. Some men wrest a living from those who wrest a living from those who wrest a living from nature and with their hands; this is called finance.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

5 provided you with a comprehensive view of the overall discovery process. It's fair to say that every client of ours possesses a solid technical discovery process, and their SEs are trained to gather the "speeds and feeds" and the technical infrastructure issues. The skill that many SE organizations seem to lack is staying focused on the business issues and not reverting back to technology at the first chance they get.