Quotes About Business

share of stock is not a lottery ticket. It's part ownership of a business.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share of stock is not a lottery ticket. It's part ownership of a business.

If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings.

One obvious sell signal is that inventories are building up and the company can't get rid of them, which means lower prices and lower profits down the road. I always pay attention to rising inventories. When the parking lot is full of ingots, it's certainly time to sell the cyclical. In fact, you may be a little late.

idea becomes an "innovation" only when it can be replicated reliably on a meaningful scale at practical costs.

Small bits of life crawled and flew about the ward on ancient business.

If there is any one country the United States is likely to engage in military conflict with over the next several decades, it certainly is a rapidly militarizing China. And if you were an American business executive contemplating an offshoring decision, would you really want all of your company's eggs in the China basket when such a conflict arises over Taiwan or Tibet or territorial rights in the South China Seas or access to oil in the Middle East?

a company.' 'You're losing me, Gerry.' 'High finance and corporate

It is important to note that this deal was with the Chinese government—not with a Chinese company, which means that the Chinese government and the son of the vice president were now business partners.

Politics in modern America has become a lucrative business, an industry that has less to do with policy and a lot more to do with accessing money and favors. As we will see, bills and regulations are often introduced not to effect policy change, but as vehicles for shaking down people for those money and favors.

The big corporations and those who must compete with them are not concerned with a sense of harmony among plants, animals, and nature.

Ironically enough, although externally corporations brutally compete in the free market, their internal workings rely not on market forces, but on group solidarity!

I don't know if you can call that thing around his neck a tie. They tried to hang him, perhaps, and he proved too heavy; he broke the rope and continued on about his business.

If you don't buy, they'll kill you. The perfect sales-pitch. Buy or die—new slogan.

he picked up his desk vidphone and said to Miss Marsten, "Get me the Happy Dog Pet Shop on Sutter Street.

C'è soltanto una cosa di cui puoi essere sicuro. Quelli che oggi vendono sapone, domani puzzano. Le industrie non sono enti benefici.

William,' she said, 'I wish you'd tell me what the matter is—' 'It's a bit complicated,' he said, 'but she won't be any trouble, honestly.' That wasn't what she meant, and both of them knew it; but somehow Will was in charge of this business, whatever it was.

I'm not in the business. 'Liking people' is often just another racket.

The stand he wants to open'll sell gyros, he says. He's not Italian after all.

you can make a fortune selling people what they want, but you can go broke selling them what they need.

When Silicon Valley says "disruption," this means they don't understand what they're doing, don't care to understand, and have only contempt for anyone who objects. "Move fast and break things," as Facebook used to put it.

What does Facebook want from a private currency so much that they're offering to lose money to run it? The obvious answer is: personal data — because Facebook always wants personal data. Facebook's business is selling personal data to advertisers.

There are dangers in this model of succumbing to "committee-itis." If too many people are jointly responsible for the execution of firm business, the chances that implementation will be deferred increase exponentially.

It is important to note that while goods are consumed, services are experienced. The professional service provider is (or should be) as much in the business of managing the client's experience with respect to professional services as in the business of executing technical tasks. Much