Business Quotes - Page 56

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer and the seller were not to consider the transaction as the most advantageous action they could choose under the prevailing conditions, they would not enter into the deal.

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

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.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.