Quotes About Business

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

I couldn't be happier with where my life's at right now. I have great partners, I have great stimulating relationships on the business side of things, I've been really busy and productive.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

Progressivism is essentially about privatizing morality and socializing the costs of immorality, in such a way that big business can profit from the former and big government can profit from the latter.

I wonder often what the Vintners buyOne half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

Big business will still leave room for small business.

The public is not an amorphous mass which can be molded at will, or dictated to. Both business and the public have their own personalities which must somehow be brought into friendly agreement.

If you represent the plumbing and heating business, you are the mortal enemy of the textile industry, because warmer homes mean lighter clothes. If you represent the printers, how can you shake hands with the radio equipment man?…

An ageing society is a less entrepreneurial one.

Older societies are also less likely to launch businesses. The rate of start-ups in America has been dropping for years and is beginning to rival Europe's less entrepreneurial pace.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

The conscious mind, ungrounded by the wisdom of the body, is remarkably incapable of taking care of business.

not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users.