Quotes of: Business-owners Keyword

Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—that that’s it. That that’s the point, that that’s the goal, you know? And that’s th...

David Foster Wallace

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. They know there is nothing a man in Washington can ...

David Brooks

Jerry Langford: Alright, look pal, I gotta tell you... this is a crazy business, but it's not unlike any other business. There are ground rules, and you don't just walk on to a network show without experience. Now I know it's an old, hackneyed expres...

The King of Comedy

I was working with a Crookes tube covered by a shield of black cardboard. A piece of barium platino-cyanide paper lay on the bench there. I had been passing a current through the tube, and I noticed a peculiar black line across the paper. ... The eff...

Wilhelm Röntgen

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

The Curse of Chalion

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

The City of Devi

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game

Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you

Chocolat

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.

Collected Poems

Board and Staff relationships are critical in any business reboot—don’t overlook or undervalue them!

Ctrl+Alt+Believe: Reboot Your Association For Success

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

Dodsworth

No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Different Seasons

Don’t make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They’re very serious business.

A Date with a Werewolf

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.

The Emissary: A Novel

the whole point of the wish business was to see to it that what the client got was exactly what he asked for and exactly what he didn't really want.

Eric

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

Fifth Business

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

Fifth Business

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Family Happiness

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

The Fault in Our Stars

Candace doesn't have to worry about me being busy in my world without you, because you are my world.

First Thing I See