Quotes About Business

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

Corporate humans would be regarded as a cancerous growth on the Earth by nature.

The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect.

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.