Quotes About Business

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

You might think that people in the business of selling books would be against places where you can read books for free, but here is a secret: libraries are awesome, librarians are even *more* awesome, and both are among the greatest things civilization has given us. *No apologies; it's true.*

Only assholes shake hands for business, for show, good people shake hands because it's just to do so.

If you really aren't interested in serving others, you don't need to be in the restaurant business in the first place.

If we get better, our customers will demand we get bigger.

Two years after Duveen died, Kress bought all the pictures that had been hanging fire. Duveen went right on selling.

No wonder Gran had managed to run a brewery with such success for the past twenty-two years. She was a Machiavelli in skirts.

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Everybody thinks they need to do God's work. If God is almighty, do you have to do his work? No. You just mind your business.

Do you see, being here with me, or during the Isha Yoga programs, there have been many moments of awareness? This is the beginning of freedom. Your business is just to establish that, not to bother about your karma. Let the karmas go wherever they want to go.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life - that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson in life—that anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal. That's true. One day you compete. The next day you partner. One day someone is your subordinate; the next day he or she may be your superior. At its finest, business is friendly competition, just like a game of tennis. As

Companies, and the people who lead them, can no longer afford to separate business objectives from the social issues surrounding them. They can no longer view their mission as a set of binary choices: growing vs. giving back, making a profit vs. promoting the public good, or innovating vs. making the world a better place.

Doing well by doing good is no longer just a competitive advantage. It's becoming a business imperative.

As Newsweek reported in an August 2010 article, "The Golden Age of Innovation," the locus of entrepreneurship in America has shifted to the fifty-five-to-sixty-four age group. Individuals over fifty-five are nearly twice as likely to create successful companies as their counterparts in the twenty-to-thirty-four age group.

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell.

Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell. (Compare Crates on Xenocrates.)

Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is thy business to do thy duty like a soldier in the assault on a town. How then, if being lame thou canst not mount up on the battlements alone, but with the help of another it is possible?

In business," Siilasmaa said, "we forget that we are human. Many strong leaders think they should not be friends with their colleagues. I disagree. Business is emotional. I like to be friends with my colleagues. You get through a crisis because you care so much.

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A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who had been reared in the tradition that men were omniscient and women none too bright.