Quotes About Business

My dad says business isn't so good right now. He can't afford to hire anyone. Not even cubs." "I'm afraid the Bearsonian won't be of any assistance, either," said Ferdy. "Uncle Actual says it runs on donations from Bear Country businesses. Lately a lot of businesses have been doing poorly, so donations are down. He will take us on as volunteers, however." "Oh, great!" said Queenie. "That'll be a big help!

Well, what you do with your farm is none of my business," said Hooper. "It darn sure isn't!" yelled Ben. "Because your business is robbery! You're nothin' but an old-fashioned highway robber! You put a supermarket out on the highway and use it to rob folks!

Lying for a good business reason has become so prevalent that they had to invent a new, less censorious word for it. They call it positioning, and people get paid good money to do it, lucky for me.

It's damned hard to fire another human being face-to-face, which is why you sort of have to congratulate Ted Turner, who took it upon himself to fire his own son from the family business—over dinner.

It was like being a fly on the wall at a meeting. JACK WELCH ON HIS JOB AT AGE TWELVE AS A CADDY FOR LOCAL BUSINESSMEN AT A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, COUNTRY CLUB

She sat in a corner warm with sunlight, a copy of Home Notes open unread upon her knee, and watched the green meadows flying past while the business men in the carriage talked about news in the papers— awful, as usual— their golf, their gardeners, and the detective stories they were reading.

The oil business, as Erickson understood it, was and had always been amoral.

So… this business trip of yours?" "What about it?" "Are you and Coop sharing a room?" She raised her eyebrows, then said, "Right back at you, Cowboy." "Liz and I are just friends." "Uh-huh. I hope your shots are up-to-date." "Meow.

For families with larger amounts of wealth, marriages in the ancient world were the equivalent of today's business mergers or investment partnerships.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

If politicians all told the truth, we'd be out of business.

I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works.

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

The idea behind K, as Johnson put it, was to strike "a good balance between running a business and helping people get their thing done." As he wrote in one of K's catalogs, "There are many different ways to measure success besides with a calculator.