Business Quotes - Page 104

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.

Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

You cannot design better products by staying in the office.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.