Quotes About Business

White sometimes joked that her specialty was the "big mess" business: she wasn't cheap, but if you found yourself in a lot of trouble, and you happened to have a lot of money, she was the lawyer you called.

And heroin was a street drug, sold out of the back of a car by anonymous young Mexicans of uncertain immigration status, whereas OxyContin had been approved by no less an authority than the Food and Drug Administration. The Sacklers were legitimate businesspeople, pillars of American society. Even after the felony conviction for Purdue, as controversy continued to swirl around OxyContin, Richard Sackler served on the advisory board of the Yale Cancer Center.

against the Sacklers were twisting the facts to scapegoat her clients, she argued. What was their crime? All they had done was sell a drug that was perfectly legal—a product

But, occasionally, Arthur would embarrass his brothers, intervening in the ad campaigns at McAdams and condescending to Raymond in front of junior staff.

Upon him I will visit famine and a fire. Till all around him desolation rings And all the demons in the outer dark Look on amazed and recognize That vengeance is the business of a man.

Members of the Tulu religion are known to truly love their craft. They are always ready welcome to welcome new postulants at any of their temples. Applications may be made during regular business hours. Willingness to help destroy the universe a must." -A Visitor's Guide to Traven, 144th Edition

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

The difference between civil servants and private businessmen is that when a central planner makes a mistake, he is likely to disrupt the whole economy and not just a single business.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

And if an increasingly pluralistic America ever decides to commission a new motto, I'm open for business, because I've got a better one than E pluribus unum. Tu dormis, tu perdis . . . You snooze, you lose.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

Closer to the Pallotta case, they also found that subjects judged someone more harshly for running a charity for profit than for running a corporation for profit.

When customers are asked to define relationship in a business situation, they discuss things such as how a salesperson can bring value to their companies.

But developing meaningful relationships takes more than being friendly. A true business relationship requires you to ascertain a customer's visions, desires, fears, and motivations.

A salesperson acting as a business shrink can unearth these problems by asking good questions and by listening to the answers.

At the most basic level, this book shows you how to ask questions that will get your customers talking.

La otra opción es quedarnos de brazos cruzados mientras nuestras petroleras compiten con los chinos a ver quién soborna mejor.

running a business without marketing will kill it

A business without marketing is dead.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits."

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.