Quotes about business
business investing-money investment-success
You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. Warren Buffett
business loss buffets
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
business insightful want
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.
business war school
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
business imagination saving
Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.
business investing market-risk
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
business war saving
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
business investing-money tables
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
business war investing-money
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
business buffets businessman
I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.
business military war
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
business buffets investing
Never invest in a business you can't understand
business inspiration intelligent
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
business sacrifice men
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. Vladimir Lenin
business men mind
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does not look as if it did. Walter Bagehot
business media use
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. William Bernbach
business style corn
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.
business advertising advantage
Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.
business men listening
You cannot sell a man who isn't listening; word of mouth is the best medium of all; and dullness won't sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.
business mouths advertising
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
business past research
Research can trap you into the past.
business science space
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. Wernher von Braun
business risk penetration
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency. Wayne White
business communication past
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
business civilization challenges
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. Samuel Gompers
business failure people
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
business men blood
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests. Konrad Lorenz
business heart years
Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing. Kevin Kelly
business confusing way
I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable. Ralph Ellison
business doing-good results
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. Ralph Waldo Emerson
business opportunity media
I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities. Scott McDonald
business decision next
The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision. Scott McNealy
business giving ruins
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products..