Quotes About Business

Were they humble? No. They were, in their own minds, human skyscrapers, fragrant with testosterone; backslapping, hand-crunching, sports-talking deal makers who spoke a language alien to me and, while swearing imaginatively at one another, often giggled like kids.

A major study conducted by IBM found that the single most sought after trait in CEOs is creativity.

But it's going to be used for the health and welfare of the bank accounts of the businessmen of Palm County, and done with so many reasonable arguments it'll be years before the public realizes what a polite screwing it took, here and all up and down this coast. Maybe what I'm saying is this, people. Nobody is going to listen to sweet reason.

There are a lot of them running loose these days, I thought, fattening themselves on the sick business of whipping up such fear and confusion that they turn decent men against their decent neighbors in this sad game of think-alike.

Hoover Hess, the owner, was working the desk. He was a loose, asthmatic, scurfy man with the habitual expression of someone having his leg removed without anesthetic. His smile was a special agony. He had gone as high as a seventh mortgage and been down as low as a second. He averaged out at about four.

uno no puede tener éxito en los negocios si no tiene un olfato para las oportunidades.

A friend who is a successful businessman explained to me how the rules of corporate loyalty have changed: "They expect you to be available anytime, day or night, because of this," he said, holding up his phone. "They can text you, call you 24/7. You are now considered to be available anytime, all the time. Those are the new rules." I

The business of the government is the business of the people.

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

I thought they were honest.' 'They are, but they're bankers, remember.

Billing was the lifeblood of the firm. Everything revolved around it.

every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.

Sure it will. That's part of it, Abby. It's a cutthroat business where the weak are eaten and the strong get rich. It's a marathon. He who endures wins the gold. And dies at the finish line.

everything, including education and corrections, is fair game for profiteers.

La mayoría de los buenos abogados pueden trabajar de ocho a nueve horas diarias y facturar doce. Lo llaman rellenar. No es demasiado honrado de cara al cliente, pero todo el mundo lo hace. Las grandes empresas han crecido gracias a las cuentas de relleno. Son las reglas del juego.

Your client is losing about twenty million a day in revenue because Krayoxx is no longer on the market

When you leave, Mr. Gant, our offer of $7 million comes off the table. You go home with zero.

It was simply unheard of for a member of the firm to ignore his billing.

Mass tort litigation was not practicing law. It was a roguish form of entrepreneurship.

F&F's annual overhead was covered by collisions that happened less than one hundred yards away.

I'm sure that if I stay in this business I'll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one's hard to imagine now.

He's also known to deal in stolen books, one of the few in that rather dark business.

her forced abdication and execution, the business on that day was regicide.

It's a no-win argument—that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.