Quotes About Business

Taking care of people, therefore, is an essential way of taking care of business.

He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At the same time, he was in no hurry for them to leave, for he admired them, most of the time, not for the modernity they were establishing but for the business opportunities they brought with them.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information," I suggested.

You know how you can tell if a gas station is price-gouging? If the sign says "Open".

Beer?" she said. "Thank you." "Two pints," she told the barmaid. "How long have you been married?" asked Carolus. "A year. Must meet Phil. He's a pet." It really sounded as if she meant a domestic one. "I should like to." "Now—business," said Mrs Roper as though this frivolous and expansive conversation had gone on too long.

What helps people, helps business.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Plan the sale when you plan the ad.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret . . . to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

A shnorrer knocked on the door of the rich man's house at six-thirty in the morning. The rich man cried, "How dare you wake me up so early?" "Listen," said the shnorrer, "I don't tell you how to run your business, so don't tell me how to run mine.

We're cutting corners, maximizing short-term profits

England? The worst of all. You know, I do some business there, I have friends in England. Their flats are broken into constantly. The police come, they look around, they dust for fingerprints. Well, we know who it is, they say. Wonderful, who? The same ones who did it last time, they say.

And since this is a business, let me say I encourage self-publishing writers to set up their own publishing company as a corporation. It's not hard to do. Consider LegalZoom.com as a starting point.

Self-publishing is a volume business. The more quality (key word!) work you put out there, the better your chances of an increasing income stream. How good are the chances? Better than if you put all your hopes on one or two books. Don't fall into that trap.

The 1950s witnessed especially rapid expansion of electronic and electrical firms, of tobacco, soft drink, and food-processing companies, and of the chemical, plastics, and pharmaceutical industries. IBM blossomed as a leader in the computer business, soon to become a guiding star of the American economy.

GM had assets greater than those of Argentina and revenues eight times those of New York State. (Defense Secretary Wilson had had a point in saying that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.)

I'm a lawyer who is trying to make partner, whose firm looks at how much business I bring in, and taking your case wouldn't be good for my career." "But it might be good for your soul.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot? This is breaking a head and giving a plaister truly!