Quotes About Business

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Life is big business, fornication, and death. Civilisation is ... the sterilising of truth ... Civilisation is world-citizenship and freedom from tradition, based on rootless eternal wandering in the mind that had nothing to lose and everything to gain including the whole world.

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.

Can't you go tomorrow?' she said. 'No, I can't! The business I'm going for, the warrant and the money, won't have come by tomorrow,' he replied.

No one knew better than Stepan Arkadyevitch how to hit on the exact line between freedom, simplicity, and official stiffness necessary for the agreeable conduct of business.

He thought of the meetings of a committee of which Berg was a member. He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

It was nothing, it was business but it left an ugly mark.

We make a product and sell it. How hard can it be? Every douchebag either one of us has ever worked for has managed to do this!

a good way to make some cash without worrying about boring things like originality or operating capital.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

As even newly elected presidents have learned, trying to correct the conduct of business as usual in the federal bureaucracy is like trying to nudge an ocean liner off its path by standing on a rubber raft and pressing on the liner's hull with your bare hands as it speeds by.

Ebenezer Scrooge is no castoff drunk, but the very emblem of economic achievement.

As the boy entered his teens, abu-Talib began to rely on him more, taking him with him as he went about his business.

IF you can approach Pilates as a business and have awareness of your own monetary needs, there is no reason why you can't make money.

Tom Brokaw said: "For parents, bribery is a white-collar crime; for grandparents, it's a business plan!

He's very private now," commented Brian. "He communicates by emails when there's a business discussion, but that's it.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

the business of the missionary, and the business of the Christian Church in any situation, is to challenge the plausibility structure in the light of God's revelation of the real meaning of history.

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.