Quotes About Business

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

matters. Do you think, my daughters, that it is an easy matter to have to do business with the world, to live in the world, to engage in the affairs of the world, and, as I have said, to live as worldly men do, and yet inwardly to be strangers to the world, and enemies of the world, like persons who are in exile -- to be, in short, not men but angels?

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.

Malus: 'You look like a person with doubts.' Zoe: 'I wonder sometimes if any of this is real - or is it just a business, selling hope to people who can't afford it?' Malus: 'Clever people have been asking that question since the iron age, Zoe. The answer remains the same.' Zoe: 'And... ?' Malus: 'Business is good.' (A dialogue regarding the Church between a demon and a human.)

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Relativism is vulgar materialism, thought disturbs the business.

Through his web of contacts in the highest levels of American business, with those corporate groups who form the bony structure of what is commonly called "the military-industrial complex, " Clifford was also absorbing another input: even the military-industrial complex was adamantly opposed to escalation.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.