Quotes About Business

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person ? some stranger ? had gone to the trouble of marking my name on this envelope.

I see," she said softly, nodding her head as though she really did. "Well, it's your business, of course." She turned her hand in her lap and stared into her damaged palm. "You are at liberty to say nothing, if that is what you want. But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you." Her eyes swiveled back to me. "Believe me, Margaret. I know.

Stifling hope is a hopeless business.

It's one thing to have the vision for a new business, Schumpeter writes, but entirely something else to figure out how to do it. Here we have the second element of entrepreneurship, which involves organizing the business.

Jordan—Jimmy Carter's chief of staff. Jordan said the Clintons "are not a couple but a business partnership." Every

Who is going to invest in a company that shows you what's going on quarterly, compared to one that shows you what's going on all the time?

To understand products, it is not enough to understand design or technology: it is critical to understand business.

business that makes and sells durable goods faces a problem: As soon as everyone who wants the product has it, then there is no need for more.

But in the world of sales, if a company were to make the perfect product, any other company would have to change it—which would make it worse—in order to promote its own innovation, to show that it was different.

Leverage: don't make deals without it. Enhance

The worst of times often create the best opportunities to make good deals. The

But I'm a businessman, and I learned a lesson from that experience: good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.

I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house.

As Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." In business, nothing is ever too small to notice.

Real estate is still a local business because the real estate is local, and the company whose

Entrepreneurs must learn how to handle stress and fear. Stress and fear must motivate entrepreneurs to become more creative, learn faster, and increase their knowledge about people and business.

Real estate is a relationship business.

Have you ever made money from your great idea?

No matter how tight your schedule or your clients' time, do your best to have face-to-face meetings. It is much easier to kill a "faceless deal." And above all, act honorably. That is what people remember.

Ivana is almost as competitive as I am and she insists she's at a disadvantage with the Castle. She says she needs more suites. She isn't concerned that building the suites will cost $40 million. All she knows is that not having them is hurting her business and making it tougher for her to be number one. I'll say this much: I wouldn't bet against her. *

In business, if we don't communicate clearly, we shrink.

offering increased productivity, increased revenue, or decreased waste are powerful associations with the need for a business (or an individual) to survive and thrive.

the owner of a dog boarding company interested in growing her business