Business Quotes - Page 99

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Never tell me the odds!

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.