Quotes About Business

Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.

The explosion of the Web and digital media from 1995 to 2000 shook companies more profoundly in a shorter time than anything since the end of World War II.

As much as I want to stay on the team -- I love Chicago, I love the Bulls -- at the same time, I know the business part of it. Sooner or later, all the rumors are going to come up.

By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.

Cahill intended the Telharmonium to transmit music through phone lines to paying subscribers, but the venture failed.

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

Liesel and Papa made their way through the book, this man was traveling to Amsterdam on business and the snow was shivering outside. The girl loved that- the shivering snow. That's exactly what it does when it comes down, she told Hans Hubermann.

Sure, she loved horses, she enjoyed racing, but she abhorred the racing business; its wastage, its overbreeding. Its greedy girth of underbelly. It was something like a beautiful whore, and she'd seen it devoid of make-up.

the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers

He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this, had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.

Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours.

One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}

Are you in the police yourself?" "No." "What business is it of yours, then?" "It's every man's business to see justice done.