Business Quotes - Page 102

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

You know we're in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don't know what's going to happen...we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.