Quotes About Business

The Web had turned out to be less the new home of Mind than the new home of Business. The

More than that, though, the way the punch-card tabulator came to be sold and used would set the pattern for the entire modern history of business computing.

selling things to early adopters is wise.

Today's innovators need to figure out how to build working relationships with customers who feel that they too have a stake in the business.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.

As I grow up, I want to keep having LB Scoots, and I would also like to start other companies

Politics is a highly tribal business.

We also gained an insight into how the rest of the music business viewed us when Alan Price raised a laugh at our expense by banging the reverb on his Hammond organ and announcing that this was psychedelic music. At the time we were mortified, probably because all our mums were in the audience; any sense of resentment has nearly worn off.

Curiously we did it all over again when we made the Live At Pompeii film, this time using another dog, called Mademoiselle Nobs. On the positive side, even when hard pressed, at least we resisted the temptation to construct an entire album of barking dogs, and to audition a clutch of session dogs desperate to make it in the music business.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

In 2006, after 8 years of losses, Wal-Mart beat a retreat from Germany, selling its stores to Metro, Germany's leading retailer, losing $1 billion in the process.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app ' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.

Manilov was pleased by these final words, but he still couldn't make sense of the deal itself, and for want of an answer, he began sucking his clay pipe so hard that it started to wheeze like a bassoon. He seemed to be trying to extract from it an opinion about this unprecedented business; but the clay pipe only wheezed and said nothing.

Business was successfully concluded. But—strange is man: he was deeply mortified at being in disfavour with the very people whom he did not respect, and whose vanity and love of dress he derided.

If a company's reputation-building efforts appear to be somehow separate from its business model, then you suspect they are primarily a corrective to its naturally amoral or immoral inclinations—a medicine to relieve the symptoms but not a cure for the basic disease.

competition between companies is at least in part a competition between different moral ideas.

Niall Fitzgerald, former chairman of Unilever, has pointed out that social responsibility is good business because "we need a constant flow of talented people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [who] ask themselves if this is an organization whose values they share."6

David is in the entertainment business, which is what people in his line of work call television news these days. A Roman circus of information and opinions.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

By '82 we were grossing a quarter of a million dollars every night in merchandise. Every . . . single . . . night.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.