Business Quotes

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.

You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.

It's an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

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

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

The primary asset of any business is its organization.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

It's the economy, stupid.

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

Good counselors lack no clients.

O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

I like doing business in a black city.

I knew I needed a partner. I needed someone who could focus on and spearhead the business side of things, and [Neal Dodson] was great at that. That's how it started.

There is crisis in Europe, where Russia is the principle intriguer and player, which affects a major source of international business and flow of capital.