Quotes About Business

If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind, there are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. I hate le misérabilisme. I'm in the shining business, not the darkening business.

The gentlemen among my readers will smile to themselves and say that women never did understand business, but the ladies may agree with me that Mrs Brandy understood her business very well, for the chief business of Mrs Brandy's life was to make Stephen Black as much in love with her as she was with him.

I only wish he had not married, said Mr. Norell fretfully. Magicians have no business marrying.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

During his years in Los Angeles, Viktor Chernenko had learned that one similarity between life in the old USSR and life in Los Angeles—life under a command economy and a market economy—was that a tremendous amount of business was transacted by people in subcultures, people whom no one ever sees except the police.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

The idea that anybody could work really hard for some extra savings, then employ those dollars into different businesses to work around the clock for them was, and still is, endlessly fascinating to me!

No, forget it. You people took the village and drove away all our business, it's you who must submit to Shariah.

What is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

activity. Every cubicle held a desk operative, furtively

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

pero ya se cobraría. Y no aceptaría vales. Sería al contado, piñas al contado.

Nunca he participado de una empresa exitosa, por eso no soy leal. Por lo menos con los empresarios...

The Clairol News Network became a way to bring updates and success stories about the Clairol Makeover to all employees so that their fears of the company going out of business could be redirected into conversations that built teamwork and led to innovation.

writing pad that bears the logo of public accommodations.

It was generally believed that what people needed to get along was love and communication skills. Even business colleagues were thought to work better if they spoke their minds and really got to know one another personally, from which affection would follow—only not too much affection, because that might be illegal.

When I repeated what I had been told, namely that women couldn't be successful in business, she was astonished.

I explained to her how the international corporations and banks that came to my school refused to interview women for jobs because women, they said, could not be in business. She

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

I am going to try to rip the economic guts out of Indiana. But we're going to do it methodically and aggressively.

I really wanted to stay in Indiana forever, but this is a business and you've got to respect the decisions that are made.

Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.

For any business that has an indirect model to move into the direct business is very difficult and very challenging.