Business Quotes - Page 72

Advertising is the life of trade.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

I made my money by selling too soon.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Make mistakes faster.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

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.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.