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Quotes About Business

He would always share the latest ideas he'd been thinking about and pass books along for people to read. Every conversation with Don allowed you to bathe in his warmth, his attention, his love of people and the grocery business, and his interest in you as a human being. And his people responded to his attention by sharing his values and providing warm and friendly services to their customers.
~ Bob Wall
But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like me in business. We can and should always poke at the questions of motivation. And we will. There never is a final draft of history.
~ Bob Woodward
Trump had gone bankrupt six times and seemed not to mind. Bankruptcy was just another business strategy. Walk away, threaten to blow up the deal. Real
~ Bob Woodward
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. In
~ Susanna Clarke
It was a dark day. A chill wind blew snowflakes against the window of Mr Norrell's library where Childermass sat writing business letters. Though it was only ten o'clock in the morning the candles were already lit. The only sounds were the coals being consumed in the grate and the scratch of Childermass's pen against the paper.
~ Susanna Clarke
I could tell the world that you are a Great White in the world of business sharks, that you don't like American-style baked potatoes, and that you're hell on wheels in bed. Your reputation would be forever destroyed.
~ Suzanne Enoch
You have business here?' the gruff voice asked. Rafe didn't relish the thought of a musket ball piercing his heart. His mother, and scads of London ladies, would be terribly upset.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Business man or not, he had the soul of a thief.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Sex that's planned like a business transaction is a turnoff for me..... Listen to yourself. Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it a seminal emission in a pre-approved orifice? (Eva to Gideon)
~ Sylvia Day
Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement.
~ Sylvia Day
How would you know?" Shawna shoved at his shoulder with a laugh, an effort that didn't budge her brother even an inch. Where she was slender as a reed, Steven was big and strapping. I knew from talking to Mark that his partner was very hands-on with his construction business, which explained both his size and the rugged condition of his hands.
~ Sylvia Day
Para Dickens y Marx, la función de las empresas era controlar o explotar al trabajador. Para Mill, su función era enriquecer a los dueños. Para Marshall, la empresa no era una cárcel, y dirigir una empresa no significaba controlar a los presos. Competir por los clientes (o los trabajadores) exigía algo más que repetición ciega. Las empresas estudiadas por Marshall habían tenido que evolucionar para sobrevivir.
~ Sylvia Nasar
The bigger the problems you can handle, the bigger the business you can handle; the bigger the responsibility you can handle, the more employees you can handle; the more customers you can handle, the more money you can handle, and ultimately, the more wealth you can handle.
~ T. Harv Eker
Conoces la definición de empresario? La que nosotros usamos en nuestros programas es la de «la persona que soluciona problemas a la gente obteniendo por ello una ganancia».
~ T. Harv Eker
By the mid-1980s, the tax code allowed depletion or depreciation allowances that cut taxes for cement companies, Christmas tree farms, apple orchards, gravel pits, railroad cars, rubber importers, cattle growers, and many, many more. There was even a depreciation allowance for human beings; professional sports teams were allowed to write off their players as "depreciable assets" as they slowed down with age.
~ T.R. Reid
One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in this search for novelty in the wrong place it discovers the perverse. The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
~ T.S. Eliot
I'm a fool, that I should simply trick the tourists like everyone else. after all, most of them will never come back. and what are tourists for but for tricking?
~ Tahir Shah
Studies have shown that many heads of Fortune Five Hundred companies are sociopaths.
~ Tami Hoag
I--buy, and I sell. You're a thief.
~ Tamora Pierce
And as he rested there in silence and she with gentle fingers smoothed his forehead, the strange flat earth went on about its business through the night.
~ Tanith Lee
The innkeeper told me there had been wasp, buzzing about." "Buzzing?" "Buzz, buzz, my dear. You bribed one of Estemba's servants, I presume to learn my destination. Then came here and sat on a wall till you knew our business." "Something of that, more or less.
~ Tanith Lee
Across clearings, an eye, A widening deepening greenness, Brilliantly, concentratedly, Coming about its own business.
~ Ted Hughes
At the rectory, she debated acknowledging she was back on the job by wearing clericals, versus pissing the new deacon off by meeting her in her civvies. She compromised by wearing a black blouse, dog collar, and subdued black cardigan over a pair of old undress-green fatigues. "Interesting look," Lois said when Clare checked in for a report on the past week. "It's a clerical mullet," Clare said. "Business on the top, party on the bottom.
~ Julia Spencer-Fleming
Notwithstanding the image of himself that he promoted, Trump's business career was always problematic.
~ Julian E. Zelizer