Quotes About Business

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.

You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who's new to the business.

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Did business with Qatar, a US ally which protects al-Qaeda.

Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon.

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.