Quotes About Business

In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Warriors have a moral obligation to protect society and it's citizens. Individuals who refuse to participate in realistic training should not be in the business.

If you are going to open a retail store you would want to consider Christmas. Most retailers make the majority of their entire year's income between

It is hard to work your day job and spend a ton of hours on your business, but it is harder to make a mistake and lose your home in foreclosure because you jumped before the boat was close enough to the dock.

If we aren't profitable by December 20, I will close the business." That would leave him about $800,000, plus his retirement money and home, and he would do something else to earn a living.

Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.

out-of-bounds marker or the game is hard to play. One of the leading causes of small-business failure is success

A lot of beginners in business think of marketing merely as selling.

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

We're all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers' expectations everyday.

What a business does (the way it competes and where it chooses to do so) usually is easily imitated. It is more difficult to respond to what a business is, since that involves acquiring or neutralizing specialized assets or skills. Anyone can decide to distribute cereal or detergent through supermarkets, but few have the clout to do it as effectively as, say, General Mills.

It was consumer pull, rather than business push, that would determine where ads appeared.

Again, that didn't matter much to Eduardo. A substantial number of his customers were in that same business, which suited him fine, since that meant they could afford the ridiculous prices he had to charge just to stay afloat. He had seen more than a few of them having private conversations with John the gringo, and though he hadn't seen money change hands, he knew without a

Joe's Mortuary, you stab 'em, we slab 'em.

Life went on in Washington, much like it had for two hundred years. Factions were scattered everywhere, pouring money, massive intellects and established heavyweights into the business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.