Quotes About Business

was a bustling center of commerce and western influence in pre-modern China. Today it is the center of business in modern day China.

Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business

Porque la audacia es una virtud, y las lágrimas de la posteridad serán perlas, pero los negocios son los negocios.

Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this? Chris: The business! The business doesn't inspire me. Keller: Must you be inspired? Chris: Yes. I like it an hour a day. If I have to grub for money all day long at least at evening I want it beautiful. I want a family, I want some kids, I want to build something I can give myself to. Annie is in the middle of that.

Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that, the world—the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you? What must I do to you? I ought to tear the tongue out of your mouth, what must I do?

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

to the girl. "Ha'penny," he muttered. To me, he said, "I know why your nose is so long, Cap'n. You use it to poke into business 'tisn't yours." "True." I touched the

So Pabrai added the following checkpoint to his list: when analysing a company, stop and confirm that you've asked yourself whether the revenues might be overstated or understated due to boom or bust conditions.

Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice. Many

doctors need to understand that we are businessmen—nothing less, nothing more—and the sooner we accept this the better.

Medicine is, I have found, a strange and in many ways disturbing business.

he had to give up the firm to his partners.

I asked Vince how his business was going. Not well, he said.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

He was furious that the music house wanted forty grand. He wanted us to Jew them down

I just had way too much energy for six A.M. Too much motivation. It was like the drunk side of my brain was trying to act distracting and entertaining, so the business side wouldn't realize it was being held hostage by a drunk. I

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

writing is serious business and not for any stray bastard that wants to try it.

The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's wealth, the artist who envies a rival's higher talent - they're all wishing facts out of existence and destruction is the only means of their wish. If they pursue it, they will not achieve a market, a fortune, or an immortal fame - they will merely destroy production

By special permit, exceptions were granted—on the grounds of "essential need"—to a few of the larger business enterprises and the more fashionable hotels.

Any man, who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. That's what I've always thought and- say, what are you laughing at?

Learning was a serious business, involving endless drills, infinite rules, long hours. There was no such thing as a weekend; one studied on all save for festival days, which came with merciful regularity in Alexandria.

The First Mistake in Public Business Is the Going into It