Quotes About Business

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. First the capital evaporates, and then the company goes into liquidation. These are very unnatural physics ...

Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law.

Compounding the horror, German officials committed an act of staggering insensitivity: they struck a commemorative medal with a depiction of the sinking ship on one side and on the other a smiling skeleton under the inscription "Business above all.

looking out for the other guy isn't just good for the soul; it's good for business. The

Especialmente en este contexto, el apoyo de la comunidad empresarial al presidente Trump resulta cínico y descorazonador, sobre todo para quienes guardan aunque sea un débil recuerdo del surgimiento del fascismo en la década de 1930.

El éxito de Trump ha sido el de formar una coalición con la comunidad empresarial, igual que entonces: los fascistas solo llegaron al poder con el apoyo de una amplia coalición conservadora que incluía al empresariado.

Y hay otras semejanzas entre Reagan y Trump: una de ellas es la voluntad abierta de servir a los intereses de las grandes corporaciones

Entre 1995 y 2005, por ejemplo, los inmigrantes fundaron el 52 por ciento de todas las nuevas compañías de Silicon Valley.[41] Y fundaron, a su vez, más del 40 por ciento de las empresas incluidas en 2017 en el listado Fortune 500 de Estados Unidos.[42]

He never bragged about how well he had done in business, but it was clear that he was pleased by the fact that, living by his few tight moral maxims—keep your overhead low, don't live beyond your means, always put something away for a rainy day—he had come out a winner. Always a methodical businessman, my

He was most alive at his business. He loved his wife, or thought he did. But did he miss Miriam? At first, yes, a lot, but by now days, whole weeks, went by when he didn't think about her.

I've always hated business breakfasts; I believe Oscar Wilde had a point when he said that only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it's not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can't be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of course not!

The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

One night my father came home from the office all excited. He told us Mr. and Mrs. Yarby were coming to New York. He's the president of the Juicy-O company. He

Berman's foot measure. Then he turned it around and I put my right foot in. That's another reason why my mother thinks Mr. Berman is good at selling

Give everyone more in use value than you take from him in cash value. Then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Action is a business of risk; the real question is the magnitude of that risk.

Until that moment of utterance, every objective analysis of economic production in Egypt would have concluded that the pain of the peasants is a necessary, normal, even natural arrangement of labor—the cost of doing business.

Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing so. But I caution them with some examples. An orthopedist profits from your misfortune of having broken your leg skiing. When there's news of a pending ice storm, I doubt whether it saddens the hearts of those in the collision repair business. I also tell my students that I profit from their misfortune—their ignorance of economic theory.

Two large, soft traveling bags weighed down his shoulders by their straps. Holo adverts blossomed into life around him. He walked lightly, scanning the people waiting for the shuttle. Food smells came out of the fast eateries across from the gate. The air hummed with the noise of business.