Quotes About Business

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Pobre y desnuda vas, filosofía, dice la turba atenta al vil negocio.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

For it is God's business to create, and people's business to name.

why contractual incompleteness matters. The reason is that the renegotiation process imposes several costs. Some of these are ex post costs, incurred at the renegotiation stage itself, and others are ex ante costs, incurred in anticipation of renegotiation.

In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

Many of the best and most conspicuous examples of strategic principles come from companies that were founded on them, companies such as eBay, Dell, Vanguard, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart ("Low prices, every day"). The founders of those companies espoused a clear guiding principle that summarized the essence of what would become a full-blown business strategy.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don't see.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

Business leaders cultivate vision to unify teams; the teams cultivate business to fulfill the vision.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

If the power to tax is the power to destroy then the power to profit is the power to create.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

everyone is now in the business of relentless self-promotion—presenting themselves, explaining themselves, defending themselves, selling themselves or sharing their inner thoughts and emotions as never before in human history.

It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business is to be fallen for" by more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.