Quotes About Business

Taylor Swift was never meant to be a singer-songwriter; she was supposed to become a stockbroker. Her parents even chose her Christian name with a business path in mind. Her mother, Andrea, selected a gender-neutral name for her baby girl so that when she grew up and applied for jobs in the male-dominated finance industry no one would know if she were male or female. It

Best Day', which touchingly evokes a childhood full of wonder, she sings of her 'excellent' father whose 'strength is making me stronger'. That excellent father is Scott Kingsley Swift, who studied business

I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.

In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

I am a businessman. To me, people only do things out of self-interest.

The Indian government wants foreign investment but ignore the basic expectations that come with it. Hence

Tax evasion, dubious accounting and shady friendships are almost seen as natural behaviour for an Indian businessman. We don't see them as crimes.

After all, the skill of doing business in India lies in managing the system, not innovation or better products. The nexus between the rich and government servants is strong and you will often find one in the other's living room in the evenings.

Gujarat is the only state in India where people tend to respect you more if you have a business than if you are in service.

Sporting News will embrace everything except Heavyweight Boxing Championship battles. They will be found in the Financial Section.

Advertising is only another form of statistics.

Before the typewriter, this was a booming career path, as nearly every major business needed a competent and proficient penman on hand... during the golden age of penmanship (roughly 1860 to 1930).

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life could begin. At last it had dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. I was always rolling these stones from my grave.

I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.

My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

Running a business with the customer in charge requires total dedication to becoming flexible.

Globally competitive companies don't eschew profit or financial well-being, but they do not believe businesses achieve financial goals by using accounting variables to control people's work. They see employees as a source of learning, not as a cost.

Business must be run at a profit…, else it will die. But when any one attempts to run a business solely for profit and thinks not at all of the service to the community, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.