Quotes About Business

North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.