Quotes About Business

Things were certainly coming my way so that there wasn't anything to do but to make money. It made me remember a saying of the late H. H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company, to the effect that there were times when a man could no more help making money than he could help getting wet if he went out in a rainstorm without an umbrella.

The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

The beauty of doing business with a crook is that he always forgives you for catching him, so long as you don't stop doing business with him.

In our day the first interest of most men is business and after that sports; in medieval times the dominant interest was war and after that sports, but there was not too much difference since sports were warlike too.

My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.

Be sure I meet not others for the business or affairs, but for gaining knowledge that builds authentic insight and foresight; indeed, it is that fragrances and enlightens the character and life.

The global business community should consider and recognize the International Date-Day, as Valentine's Day and such other Days.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Oh, but you're wrong! It's my duty as a priest to pry into people's lives. I agree it's a meddlesome trade, but it's no more useless than the business of a merchant, clothier, carpenter or samurai. It exists because it is needed.

Don't be so modest. Having a unique name is best...sticks in you head! That's one trick to doing business.

The results of the trends research overwhelmingly indicated that the role of the TD professional has moved beyond the traditional realm of training design and delivery. Effective talent development requires a proactive, business-partner approach to anticipate and respond to changing needs and to leverage personal capabilities to support organizational strategy and generate competitive advantage.

Since only about 50 to 60 percent of the population enjoyed a secure attachment in childhood (a shocking statistic, really), those of you HSPs who tend to be very cautious about close relationships (avoidant), or very intense in them (anxious-ambivalent), can still consider yourselves quite normal. But your responses to relationships are powerful because there is so much unfinished business in that department.

Business can also be seen as a work of art requiring an artist, a task of prophecy requiring a visionary, a social responsibility requiring a judge, a job of growing requiring skills like those of a farmer or parent, a challenge of educating the public requiring skills like those of a teacher, and the like.

Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business requires their presence elsewhere. —

Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

It was the flexibility, the originality, and the independence of thought—combined, of course, with our vast resources—that made American business grow so rapidly. If the seeds of growth are made sterile, if men become passive followers instead of developing qualities of leadership—and courage—we may find someday that our way of life has been superseded.

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

The problem with managing either a business or a prison by periodic rather than continuous inspection is that the "variables" are likely to be seriously out of control before the discrepancy is noted.

Always remember… that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

The only reason Francis is in this business is because it's the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he's a master manipulator.