Quotes About Business

Corporations have to be responsive to price signals. We are not public service.

Pieces of a living city cannot be auctioned off without taking into consideration that there are indigenous traditions, even if they seem odd to foreigners … . But these are our traditions and our city. For a long time we lived under the dictatorship of the Communists, but now we have found out that life under the dictatorship of business people is no better. They couldn't care less about what country they are in. —Grigory Gorin, Russian writer, 19931

Droughts and floods create all kinds of business opportunities besides a growing demand for men with guns.

Trump was clearly betting that being president would drive up the price. But what if he is proven wrong? What if he starts losing commercial renters because they are coming under pressure for their association with his brand (several boycott campaigns like this are already under way)?

More or less, I informed the eldritch horror it had no business existing with so much aggression, that I shoved it entirely out of reality.

Didn't he come to—to ask you for some magic? No, he came to enjoy the view of the Wood, the Dragon said. Of course he came for magic, and I sent him about his business, which is hacking at enemy knights and not meddling in things he scarcely understands.

Peace is bad for business. When the former Soviet Union fell apart, the U.S. defense industry was staring into the face of a falling market share: To grow, it would have to find a new enemy. It would also help if it expanded its product line from building fighter jets to the newfangled demand for applications involving surveillance.

In studies of body self-perception, women regularly overestimate their body size; in a study of economic self-perception, they regularly underestimate their business expenses. The point is that the two misperceptions are causally related. By valuing women's skills at artificially low levels and tying their physical value into the workplace, the market protects its pool of cheap female labor.

Because of this mysterious virus from China, Broadway was closing.33 All of Broadway. Not just one theater or ten theaters, as in a free society in which business owners make choices based on individual risk. All of Broadway, in one iconic, sweeping, Soviet-style, top-down gesture.

Waiting for business conditions to pick up. This is nothing but an excuse.

If you want to win, go to business, to the office, to the conference, or to the public meeting, brim full of vitality and people will realize without any act on your part that a king is in their midst.

the money which is essential for the conduct of business is as worthless as a sand dune, until it has been mixed with efficient brains.

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

Let me remind you that you are talking to a professional in the craft of seduction, and this business of kissing is for amateurs and little old men in slippers. Real women are won over bit by bit.

Desde que no vendemos una escoba se pasa los días emparedado en la trastienda con ese libro egipcio de los muertos. -Es el libro de contabilidad - corregí.

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

Toda oportunidad de negocio parte de una incapacidad ajena de resolver un problema simple e inevitable

All theatricals are round the twist, Troy,' said Barnaby, tugging at the doors that led to the foyer. 'If they weren't they'd get out of the business and into real estate.

The day was unusually sultry. Nancy walked slowly down the elm-shaded street. Reaching the business section, she paused to look in the window of a small shop.

don't believe it," said Stumpy ungratefully. His wife was more gracious. "Thanks, Miss Drew. And I want to tell you I'm tired of this whole business. You're only a kid but you've really taught me a lesson.

Not me." Ned laughed. "My future is pretty well set, and I don't want anyone tampering with it. I'll go into business, prosper, and marry a certain ambitious young lady named....

You don't like possessive people then?' 'It isn't that I don't like them, I cannot understand what motivates them, unless it is an inadequacy in themselves, some deep want, and in order to alleviate it in some way, they hang on to another human being. It's a sort of desire for power. Those who run businesses are possessed in a similar way. They have power over people; and very often, on their whims depends a man's livelihood.

Though when she thought of it after, it was rather unprofessional behaviour, but sometimes when people are involved, business has to stop being business and the human must win. However, Kitty couldn't ignore the underlying truth that they both hung on to that hug for a little too long.

When promotion and staffing decisions are being made, the best advocate you can have is a customer who doesn't want to live without you. On the flip side, imagine the impact of a customer who thinks you are condescending. Your customer represents the needs of the business, and you are paid to provide for those needs. Don't forget this.