Quotes About Business

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

I think it would be a good thing in the creative community if there was less embarrassment of this word 'commercial' because that's how you make a business.

If I can encourage other women to think about setting up their own businesses and being entrepreneurs and making a contribution then I think that's a good thing.

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

In my case, I'm in touch with God in good times and bad. I don't use God as a means of favour. And I can't do business with him - the very thought is bizarre.

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers.

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!

To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength.

Already even politics ceases to be the business of a gentleman ; and it is possible that one day it may be found to be so vulgar as to be brought, like all party literature and daily literature, under the rubric : Prostitution of the intellect.

is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure.

From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the — largely unconscious — embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management.

A sustainable business organization would be embedded in an "ecology of organizations," in which the waste of any one organization would be a resource for another.

Perhaps the solicitation to pamper the way men live is too strong for them, for much of the business of philosophy at the present time seems to be to give high-sounding names to cover the sins of men. The clay is now molding the potter and the marble carving out the sculptor.

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

trading expedition

By having Wyoming, Inc., perform a legitimate service for Your State, Inc., Your State, Inc., has an expense to write off against its income, thus reducing taxable revenues.

What does California think of this? They will assert that the Wyoming business is doing business in California and thus must pay all state taxes, including the notorious $800 annual franchise fee. If you live in California know that you will have to do a lot more planning (and may have to pay more in state taxes) when using these strategies.

Assume Your State, Inc. is involved in a day-to-day business where it could be sued. By having all the good assets in Wyoming, Inc., and leasing them to Your State, Inc., you have removed these assets from risk.

The two main reasons you need to Start Your Own Corporation are for protection against lawsuits and against excessive taxes

If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are many precedents like that in the past. The first to market is not necessarily the winner in the race.

The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.