Quotes About Business

Here's why: Past performance is not a good predictor of future returns. What does predict investment performance are the fees charged by the investment manager. The higher the fees you pay for investment advice, the lower your investment return. As our friend Jack Bogle likes to say: In the investment business, "You get what you don't pay for.

My love is my business; it has nothing to do with you. You love me, and that isn't personal. You tell the story that I am this, or I am that, and you fall in love with your story. What do I have to do with it? I am here for your perception, as if I had a choice. I am your story, no more and no less. You have never met me. No one has ever met anyone.

Instead of going about His business and allowing satan to choose the time and place of attack, Jesus took the initiative and went on the offensive immediately after His baptism.

cases certainly can be found of large firms and multinational corporations (MNCs) that may have undermined the efforts of the poor to build their livelihoods, the greatest harm they might have done to the poor is to ignore them altogether.

The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

Quit being an asshole, Nicky. You weren't in the medical care business, you were in the stealing business.

and the Chamber of Commerce was handing out cyanide capsules.

Martin Trebeaux had purchased a fleet of marine barges using the proceeds from a poshly falsified BP oil-spill claim.

The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition.

No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business.

Never tell the whole truth in a trade. A favor is an investment.

Marx's once scandalous thesis that governments are simple business agents for international capital is today an obvious fact

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

I'm a witch. It's what we do. When it's nobody else's business, it's my business.

Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is that many of them really are, having strayed into this world after taking a wrong turning in their own bookshops in worlds where it is considered commendable business practice to wear carpet slippers all the time and open your shop only when you feel like it.

Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]

A banker ? Me ? Yes, Mr. Lipwig. But I don't know anything about running a bank! Good. No preconceived ideas. I've robbed banks! Capital! Just reverse your thinking, said Lord Vetinari, beaming. The money should be on the inside .

Sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen is work. Thousands of offices operate on this very principle.

She had found them lodgings in The Shades, an ancient part of the city whose inhabitants were largely nocturnal and never inquired about one another's business because curiosity not only killed the cat but threw it in the river with weights tied to its feet.

Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money.

That was an important rule of any game: always make it easy for people to give you money.

And this 'rebooting' business? Give it a good kicking, do you?" "Oh, no, of course, we…that is…well, yes, in fact," said Ponder. "Adrian goes round the back and…er…prods it with his foot. But in a technical way," he added.

The nature of these vast retail combinations, should they ever permanently disappear, will form an interesting chapter in the commercial history of our nation.

I listen to a lot of audio books and business-related books. All of the great businessmen have one thing in common: they write down their goals. They keep a journal. Not only that, but I write down my goals, and I check it off: whether or not I ate right, work out, check it off.