Quotes About Business

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.

To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on.

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

Even though Jews are a tiny minority of less than a tenth of 1 percent of the world's people, they comprise perhaps a quarter of the world's paramount capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Aim at performance, and low cost will follow. Aim at low cost, and you will not achieve sufficient performance to have an enduring business. After a sufficient system is devised, demand will foster economies of scale and learning curves that bring the price down over time.

What can I do for you?" Cookie narrowed his eyes into sly slits. "I have not seen you for so long. I miss my dear friends. I have come to spend time with you." "So Clan Nuan wants to expand its business to the Seven Star Dominion." Cookie's eyes widened in shock. He clasped his hands to his furry chest. "How could we possibly, even if we wanted to? That's Clan Sai territory. I am simply here on vacation. I work too hard. So hard.

I didn't know you were in the plumbing repair business. I'm in the good son business. I couldn't leave my mother in the house with no running water.

Where is your . . . significant other? He's around. He was never too far. Why, are you worried he'll find out about this romantic rendezvous? The vampire froze for a second. What? You're meeting me in secret on a lonely street in the middle of the night . . . Ghastek's voice was so sharp, if it were a knife, I would've been sliced to ribbons. I find your attempts at humor greatly distressing. Hee-hee. I assure you, this is strictly business. Sure it is, sweet cheeks.

We're a family business. All we have is our name and our reputation. We follow only three rules. First, once bought, we stay loyal to the client. Second, we try not to do anything illegal. And third, at the end of the day we have to be able to look our reflection in the eye.

Oh what a mad business, no good can come of it, only chaos, and not just chaos but evil. How did we gradually get entangled in such a terribly dangerous shambles!

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

He always felt trapped and restless when talking to lawyers or doing any business with them

Fighting and scars are part of a trader's overhead. But fighting is only useful when there's money at the end, and if I can get it without, so much the sweeter.

What do you require to exchange your ideas for mine?" "You think my convictions are for sale?" "Why not?" came the cold response. "Isn't that your business, buying and selling?" "Only at a profit," said Mallow

I'm a man of business. If it adds up to a plus mark, I'm for it.

One way of saving on energy use would be to do away with unnecessary transportation. For instance, people commute between work and home, or travel long distances to engage in business conferences. With the development of improved communications and increasing automation, it will become possible in the not-too-distant future, for people to control and maintain business operations and machinery at a distance.

You mean you're going to risk your life on something that isn't your business? Gorov smiled thinly. Ponyets said, You mean that this is a matter of patriotism and traders aren't patriotic? Notoriously not. Pioneers never are.

We distrust doctors because it's obvious that good health does not promote good business, and we go to them only when everything else has failed, after we've tried all the remedies recommended by our friends and acquaintances.

No me conviene salir de un capitalista para caer en otro. Lo que hay que hacer es una cooperativa y mandar a la madame al carajo. No ha oído hablar de eso? Váyase con cuidado, mire que si sus inquilinos le forman una cooperativa en el campo, usted se jodió. Lo que yo quiero es una cooperativa de putas. Pueden ser putas y maricones, para darle más amplitud al negocio. Nosotros ponemos todo, el capital y el trabajo. Para qué queremos un patrón?

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

I feel unfinished business with the WBO title because that was my first loss when I went to New Zealand with Joseph Parker.

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.