The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against an active government - and they folded. By the 1880s, the party's leaders had abandoned their message of opportunity and tied themselves to big business.
God will forgive me; that's his business.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself... there's a lot of disappointment in this business.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
My father told me, never have partners.
Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.
Farming's always been my business.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Good design is good business.
We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
There's no business like show business.
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.