I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently, worked hard, spent honestly, saved honestly, gave honest value for money, put back more than they took out, and told no lies. This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. —Anita Roddick More about this quote Tags: honesty religion money business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: friends religion enemies business friendliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: nature business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. —John C. Dvorak More about this quote Tags: fear time business computers fun Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: morality business selling selflessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Twain's presence. "Before I die," he declared, "I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top." "I have a better idea," Twain replied. "You could stay home in Boston and keep them. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: business home travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains. —William Wadsworth More about this quote Tags: politics nature business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth, . . . have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: sex conversation americans business cliche Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. —Aldus Manutius More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. —Ambrose Bierce More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The chief business of the American people is business. —Calvin Coolidge More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. —David Letterman More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. —David M. Ogilvy More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. —David Rockefeller More about this quote Tags: business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email