Quotes of: Business-owners Keyword

Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.

Lost for Words

Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.

The Long Walk

Hey, Jimmy.” “Yeah.” “You ever think about how long we’re going to live?” “No,” he says. “Not really.” “Well, why not?” “I dunno. Guess I’m too busy livin’ it to think about it.

State of Nature

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman

Tibetan Book of the Dead

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Tigana

In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.

Original Sin

If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Awareness is a gentle beauty. It hovers around me like a fairy, pointing to those things I would miss if I didn't look past the obvious and on the other side of busy.

Personal Development Insights

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.

Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion

A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: "The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

A People's History of the United States

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

Paper Towns

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.

Revolution in a Bottle: How TerraCycle Is Redefining Green Business

In business I play hardball, because softball is for high school girls. People don’t know I used to be a pitcher. I was full of water, until my ex wife poured it all out.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’m too busy to chew. That’s why I blend all my meals into smoothies, and I make love as slowly as ice cream melts in the Sahara.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I hired a counterfeiter the other day. I told him, “As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you.” I love a business model where the employee pays the employer.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’ve often been told I fight like a girl, probably because from the moment I whip off my bra, my opponent knows I mean business.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’m a designer. I’m trying to design a half a person, but I’m looking for a business partner, a female who’ll contribute the other 50% to the design and make it not only complete, but humane and personable.

This Book Has No Title

You're sadly fucked up. And really homo, too." Jared scowled. "Bisexual, fuck you very much, and unless I yank your dong it's none of your business anyway.

The Vampire's Boy