Quotes about Business

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.

In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.

Now, Charlie, here's what you do: on this feature bin you put three for $1.00 panties, and on this one you put four for $1.00. And you put these nylons right in between the two of them. And then watch em sell.' And they did. Like crazy.

And here it is: the more you share profits with your associates—whether it's in salaries or incentives or bonuses or stock discounts—the more profit will accrue to the company. Why? Because the way management treats the associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers. And if the associates treat the customers well, the customers will return again and again, and that is where the real profit in this business lies

In the global economy, successful business is going to do just what Wal-Mart is always trying to do: give more and more responsibility for making decisions to the people who are actually on the firing line, those who deal with the customers every day.