Quotes About Business

The sale is closed when you get the order, collect the check, take it to the bank, and the check clears! —DAVID H. SANDLER

And as in any line of business, a succeeding CEO who couldn't make a bygone cock-up look like an opportunity missed wasn't fit for management, and should take her retirement package, her annual bonus, her golden handshake and her non-disclosure kickback and tiptoe from the boardroom in disgrace.

Without slack there is no tactical agility in the business.

Reducing coordination and transaction costs is at the heart of Lean. It is waste elimination in its most potent form. It allows smaller batches to become efficient. It enables business agility. Reducing coordination and transaction costs is game changing.

Prioritization is rightly the job of the business sector, not the technology organization, and so should not be within a technical manager's remit. Unfortunately, it is commonplace for business management to abdicate that responsibility and leave a technical manager to prioritize the work—and

People who vote for candidates bought by private business interests are not politically free in any real sense.

Always be closing.

Standing to one side watching the politicians and the journalists and the cameras is one of the factory's owners, John Kernahan, who tells me Sulo's annual turnover is $85 million. So the carbon tax? "It's not a biggie.

In the end, what choice does one have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get one with the business of ones life. That's the hope, anyway.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

As a business traveler, you'll likely be met at your destination by someone who asks, "So, how was your flight?" This, as if there are interesting variations and you might answer, "The live orchestra was a nice touch," or "The first half was great, but then they let a baby take over the controls and it got all bumpy." In fact, there are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.

The one area of expertise you can never give up is sales.

error," and it is the best way to seek out a great result that fulfills your client's business need.

if we're so good at helping companies strengthen their products, services and brands, then why are we so poor at applying the same deliberate choreography to our own business operations?

Para hacer buenos negocios solo hay que tener buen ojo, dinero y falta de fe en la inteligencia humana.

new business. I hope it prospers. When treason prospers, then none dare call it treason, Roger thought. I wonder if that was an intentional quote.

That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.

Looking back now, I see that we made all the classic mistakes of a growing company.

The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.

I'm serious. I don't know how you work like that. My school shit is better organized, and I'm not in the business of World Domination.

But like all things, the business has two sides. Clean white teeth are not always wise, now are they? Par exemplum: when I was in the Congo, the only way I could identify the nigger was by the whiteness of his teeth, if you see what I mean. Horrid business. Dark as buggery, it was. And they died because of it, you see? Poor bastards. Or rather I survived, to look at it in another way, do you see?

He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical politics; to hear that Equality was a myth, and Multiculturalism was a fatuous dream; he thrilled at the suggestion that Art was a gift from God, blessing only a handful of masters, and most Literature merely a veil for poorly reasoned left-wing ideologies.

Pop fiction falls between the private and personal world of the home and the outside world of the publishers, studios, record labels and broadcasters, massive corporations which threaten to turn the most fundamental quality of human beings – our unending love of communication – into big business and, at its worst, propaganda.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.