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Quotes About Business

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
~ Sabeer Bhatia
By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.
~ Seth Godin
In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love,  your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.
~ Marianne Williamson
social fabric of our society as well as the natural environment on which all business, and indeed all life, depends.
~ Marianne Williamson
it's just business nothing personal...
~ Mario Puzo
Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.
~ Mario Puzo
Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
~ Mario Puzo
Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time.
~ Mario Puzo
It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell.
~ Mario Puzo
Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved.
~ Mario Puzo
the Don never held a grudge that impaired his future profits.
~ Mario Puzo
Don Tommasino also controlled the water rights in the area and vetoed the local building of any new dams by the Roman government. Such dams would ruin the lucrative business of selling water from the artesian wells he controlled, make water too cheap, ruin the whole important water economy so laboriously built up over hundreds of years.
~ Mario Puzo
My only business is to save souls in danger of hell. What a man does is his own business.
~ Mario Puzo
Quiero que Mike sepa que fue por negocios —dijo—. Nada personal. Siempre sentí una gran simpatía hacia él.
~ Mario Puzo
Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
~ Mario Puzo
This guy is a personal friend of J. Edgar Hoover," Johnny said. "You can't even raise your voice to him." "He's a businessman," the Don said blandly. "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
~ Mario Puzo
las alianzas mafiosas del poder político y empresarios influyentes para, prostituyendo el mercado, repartirse dádivas, monopolios y prebendas—.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Thou art a minister of the Word; Mind thy Business!
~ Mark Ashton
Profit is the universal trigger of innovation.
~ Mark Bowden
The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.
~ Mark Helprin
In 2008, America elected a man with no hands-on experience of anything who promptly cocooned himself within a circle of advisors with less experience of business, of the private sector, of doing than any previous administration in American history. You want change, so you vote for a bunch of guys who've never done nuthin' but sit around talking?
~ Mark Steyn
In 2008, America elected a man with no "hands-on experience" of anything who promptly cocooned himself within a circle of advisors with less experience of business, of the private sector, of doing than any previous administration in American history. You want "change," so you vote for a bunch of guys who've never done nuthin' but sit around talking?
~ Mark Steyn
There was less private-sector business experience in Obama's cabinet than in any administration going back a century.30
~ Mark Steyn
Luck is not a business model.
~ Anthony Bourdain