Quotes About Business

Who's going to take care of all those old white people? Where are new businesses going to come from?" Bob

If business profits rose during the war, labor's wages rose much more—an average of 70 percent.

the commercial stage represents the greatest change from the past.

Marx's well-worn dictum that the capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him with.

Starting with chapter 1, Smith explains how the business of civilization gets done, by isolating the basic principle that explains all social improvement: the division of labor. This is Smith's term. The idea itself probably originated with David Hume, who called it "the partition of employments." We use another, perhaps better, word for it: specialization.

Britain was "the nation of shopkeepers," a phrase that was not meant to flatter.

In truth, a good master mason could build an entire Gothic cathedral with just a compass and a T square, a device he borrowed from Greek mathematicians for lining up perfect vertical and horizontal lines. This dazzling command of practical geometry made the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages truly independent businessmen. By the fourteenth century, they were already calling themselves free masons.

Reid once defined common sense as "that degree of judgment which is common to men with whom we can converse and transact business." Where no one was clearly in charge, common sense would have to reign. It was the moral of modern democracy, as the exponents of the Scottish school had conceived it, and as Scots in America, at least, had brought it into being.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Chris Scalet, the former CIO at Merck for many years, "I would always start the conversation in terms of what is the meaning for the business. They are never IT conversations or IT projects; they are always business enabler projects.

I had a good classical education, and a positive distaste for business of any kind; that was the capital with which I faced the world [...] I reflected, then, on my want of prospects, and I determined to embark in literature. - Really; that was strange. You seem to be in pretty comfortable circumstances, though.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

It would probably be wiser to nail up over the door of the new quantum theory a notice, 'Structural alterations in progress - No admittance except on business', and particularly to warn the doorkeeper to keep out prying philosophers.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

la clase dirigente catalana, en buena parte forrada de pasta con el tráfico de esclavos negros y los negocios de una Cuba todavía española, tenía asegurado su tres por ciento, o su noventa por ciento, o lo que trincara entonces, para un rato largo.

en política, negocios y sexo, traicionar es sólo cuestión de fechas.

We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.

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

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery.

A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.

Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already made.

Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.