Quotes About Business

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Soza. I like you Tony,I think you and me can do business a long time.But I only tell you this one time-Don't you ever try to fuck me Tony.

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

i thought to myself well if there's a sucker out there it may as well be me for believing this jerk would stay in business if he paid all his writers like he was going to pay me. i mean he must not have even realized that poetry doesn't sell!

Too many would-be beautiful businesses that could reinvent markets and create substantial value live only in PowerPoint documents, never to be launched.

I have to wonder now…while the government's off making money with its so-called "business," who governs the country? And I, for one, am just a little frightened of the thought that the future of our country depends on the gaming habits of our children. Will the President propose tomorrow that I let my son or daughter play video games because it supports the country? Will video games replace textbooks in school?!

You can launch your company with tremendous passion for the business. You can execute your vision flawlessly. But if you don't have a plan for learning, you won't be able to keep up with a constantly adjusting market, and you can become irrelevant very quickly.

Launch!: The Critical 90 Days From Idea to Market (2014).

The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.

Better to say nothing and be thought a fool, than to interfere in the business of wizards and remove all doubt.

Everything personal is business with us." She brushed the dust from his cheek against her coat. "And all of our damned business is personal.

If it's such a fine place, why did Basanti build his own?" "The Old Pearl is perfectly adequate," said Moncraine. "Basanti built to flatter his self-regard, not fatten his pocketbook." "Because businessmen like to spend lots of money to replace perfectly adequate structures they can use for nearly nothing, right?

The business we are about is the ministry of the Word, and the ministry of the Word seeks to grow up believers in Jesus Christ.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

At a cost of up to $10,000 per pod per month, it was a highly lucrative business for the NYSE. How the setup fit in with the notion that electronic trading created a level playing field for all investors was another question.

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

People create jobs, not the government.

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.