Quotes about bus
business integrity bad-day
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau
business mean men
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers. Henry Ford
business believe perfection
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done Henry Ford
business order today
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? Paddy Chayefsky
business men venture
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. Plautus
business two giving
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them. [Lat., Negotii sibi qui volet vim parare, Navem et mulierem, haec duo comparato. Nam nullae magis res duae plus negotii Habent, forte si occeperis exornare. Neque unquam satis hae duae res ornantur, Neque eis ulla ornandi satis satietas est.] Plautus
business profit ifs
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.] Plautus
business soul
Dispatch is the soul of business.
busted millions
I've busted a million Europeans Phil Hellmuth
business management economics
It's better to ask the right questions than accept the status quo Phil Harding
business two greed
The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience Phil Harding
business excellence incentives
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last Phil Harding
business earth cost
Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge Phil Harding
business management environment
A sustainable business is resource efficient, respects the environment and is a good neighbour Phil Harding
business social trade
Trade is a social act. John Stuart Mill
business people growing
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. John Sergeant Wise
business risk mind
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell
business doubt trouble
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder..
business too-late bandwagon
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late. James Goldsmith
business war people
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed. James Grant
business intelligent thinking
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. Laurence J. Peter
business levels hierarchy
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter
business profound competition
Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution. Franklin D. Roosevelt
business failure action
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along. Franklin D. Roosevelt
business self greed
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. Franklin D. Roosevelt
business agency lasts
The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture. Johnny Weissmuller
business skins should
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again. Nikita Khrushchev
business punishment want
I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business finance reason
Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business gestures finance
Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business want derivatives
We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them? Nassim Nicholas Taleb
business creativity imagination
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. N. R. Narayana Murthy
business differences mind
Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset. N. R. Narayana Murthy