Quotes About Business

los márgenes comerciales del café rondan el 150 por ciento; cuesta 40 centavos preparar una taza de café de máquina de un dólar, y menos de un dólar preparar un café cortado que se vende a 2,55 dólares. De

Los reguladores descubrieron que librarse del dióxido de azufre era tan barato que poca gente estaba dispuesta a pagar demasiado por el derecho a seguir produciéndolo. Al

Ormerod's discovery strongly implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy.

O Facebook e o Google dizem-nos que os seus objetivos são louváveis: criar uma melhor experiência para o utilizador. Mas são também empresas, e a criação de uma melhor experiência para o utilizador está estritamente ligada a outra função de aptidão: ganhar dinheiro.

Confundir o que é bom para os mercados financeiros com o que é bom para os empregos, salários e para a vida das pessoas é um erro fatal em muitas escolhas económicas realizadas por líderes empresariais, legisladores e políticos.

Eu sou um capitalista bem-sucedido, mas estou cansado de ouvir que pessoas como eu criam empregos. Há apenas uma coisa que cria empregos, e são os clientes. E temos estado a tramar os trabalhadores há tanto tempo que eles não se podem dar ao luxo de ser nossos clientes. - Nick Hanauer

these three cases, teasing out some of the essential elements of difference. Netscape vs. Google

How can a business create more value for society than it captures for itself?

O processo de integração de novas tecnologias nos negócios e na sociedade está longe de ter terminado. Novas tecnologias estão a generalizar-se mais rapidamente do que podem ser aprendidas em qualquer escola. Entretanto, as vantagens das novas tecnologias para as empresas dependem muito da sua capacidade para formar a sua força de trabalho e mudar os fluxos de trabalho de acordo com as suas exigências.

If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something.

It is not often appreciated how much intelligence services depend on the news media for their information. Part of it was functional. They were in much the same business, and the intelligence services didn't have the brain market cornered.

together unless they're waiting for a bus or they're bums." Jack joined them under the tree and they stood in a semicircle. "Okay, we're business schmucks," Clark said, "standing around talking

The great management guru Charles Handy says that, as far as money goes, you have to look after yourself. He reckons you may need to do something else as well as your "passion project" to earn money, particularly in the early stages of a new business

A business plan is a campaign, a strategy, an outline of what you want to do and how you plan to do it. And you need to write one whether or not you are looking for finance.

Your business plan should tell a compelling story. It should present a problem that you are going to fix.

Include some material in your business plan about your competition. Become obsessed by your competition. You may think you have none, but you do.

Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not.

If you're not very careful, your creative business, the very thing which you hoped would lead to liberty and riches, will instead trap you in a hell of hard-working poverty.

These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

GENERAL, I have learned that the jack ass whose business it is to report to you upon the battle of the 27th [the 27 Nivôse, i.e., January 16] stated that I was only in observation throughout the battle. I don't wish any such observation on him, for he would have shit in his pants. Salute and Brotherhood! ALEX. DUMAS

Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

And, after all, winning business is what writing proposals is all about.

Although a great proposal by itself seldom wins a deal, a bad proposal can definitely lose one.

The usual way in which we try to become like God is first to eliminate the God who reveals himself in human form and reimagine God as the god I want to be, invest this reimagined god with my own god fantasies, and then take charge of the god business.