Quotes About Business

There's always room for an operator like Airbnb, but it's quite a different thing to my serviced apartments. Airbnb is a different market - it has nothing to do with me.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to break news to elevate your career, to get to a certain point and a certain level in this business, before you even had the license to give your opinion, especially if you were a black man.

Rarely, if ever, has a cable news channel employed a host who has previously campaigned for the business goals of the channel's parent company. But as channels like MSNBC have moved to more opinionated formats, they have exposed themselves to potential conflicts.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

I have come up to town expressly to propose to her. Algernon. I thought you had come up for pleasure? . . . I call that business.

Poets, as a class, are business men. Shakespeare describes the poet's eye as rolling in a fine frenzy from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, and giving to airy nothing a local habitation and a name, but in practice you will find that one corner of that eye is generally glued on the royalty returns.

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.

NOW, touching this business of old Jeeves – my man, you know – how do we stand? Lots of people think I'm much too dependent on him. My Aunt Agatha, in fact, has even gone so far as to call him my keeper. Well, what I say is: Why not? The man's a genius.

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again.

I see. Before you fell a victim to the feverish desire for reckless speculation which is so marked a characteristic of the American business man, what?

We're in business—romantic lighting," she dryly intoned. "Ha ha ha.

But he is dying faster than he should. The better a man is at business, the worse in retirement.

More energy is devoted to doing it again to correct mistakes, assign blame, and resolve conflicts than to serving customers and building the business.

Alignment is not only the source of team power, but it is also a prerequisite for team empowerment. In today's business environment teams and empowerment go hand in hand.

Businesses make lots of mistakes, so part of the point of business is to analyze them, to correct them, to have some sense of urgency about it; to have a management environment where it's okay to acknowledge mistakes—that way you can fix them," Dimon added.

Jamie Dimon is in a position to scoop up assets on the cheap. That's how you create value for the long term.

As history has shown, what happens after the deal determines the ultimate success. It's one thing to make an acquisition, and another to integrate it well.

Three of his greatest characteristics are he's really smart, he has tremendous energy, and he'll get into the details with anybody on anything. Most people who get to the level that he is at are prone to be superficial when it comes to running the business; they don't have enough time or energy to get into the details," observed Harvard Business School professor Paul Marshall.

From his office on the 48th floor, Dimon makes the rounds every day to committee members who are in New York, stopping by for conversations lasting three or four minutes. Those outside New York are apt to get a short phone call. Although Dimon uses electronic communication, his preferred mode is personal and when possible face-to-face. He doesn't waste time, but sees these micro-meetings as the most efficient way to following up on issues across the bank's six business units.

I tell him his business, all business, is legalized throat-cutting, like marriage is legalized fornication.

Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something—brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct—effects movement.

articulate, and at ease in expressing their ideas on a one-to-one basis, become tongue-tied and terrified when faced with even a small audience. Businesspeople have been stymied in their careers because they fear speaking up