Quotes About Business

I make my living by identifying patterns of behavior and predicting people's actions. The fact that most folks don't change much over time is very good for my business.

Carlos was known to the pushcart peddlers as the most skillful carton-flattener in the Lower East Side section of New York City. Carlos' business was to go around to small stores that had clean cardboard cartons which they wished to be rid of. With two or three deft motions, Carlos would flatten the cartons and carefully stack them on his pushcart. Carlos was the only flattener in the business who could stack to a height of twelve feet without the cartons slipping off.

I mean, if I am going to invest in a new model, I'd have to be sure there's a market. We will create a market, said Claire with surprising ruthlessness. That's how business works. That's how late capitalism works, I said.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

I don't mind paying people more for something if we're getting more. But just to change a deal because you're greedy and you want more? No. I'm not gonna go along with that.

I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn't be so grateful. Know what you're worth. Walk away.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

Believe in your work, educate yourself about the business, surround yourself with good people, set goals and timetables and stay focused on them.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.

Usually, when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.

Success in business doesn't come without passion, vision, hard work, and knowing that you're doing the right thing.