Quotes of: Business-people Keyword

What others think about you is none of your business.

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

Shadows & Dreams

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

Montaigne: Essays

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

Master of the Game

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Monsignor Quixote

Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen. Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.

Master of Stupidity

The circus is the perfect business right now because parents want their kids to be kids and not Charley Bucket drinking cabbage soup all day.

The Nobody Show

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

Less Than One: Selected Essays

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

The Last Vampire

This is an essential element of the business of being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant arc of bullshit,

Manhood for Amateurs

I don't mind the dark, and because it's Christmas, we've been busy putting lights up everywhere. High, so everyone knows we're okay.

Snowfall

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.

Speed-The-Plow

I’m not sitting around doing nothing. I’m busy petting the cat. Why hasn’t anybody told the philosophers that this is the meaning of life? 

Sleepwalking is restercise

In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.

Shopaholic and Sister

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Taking Care of Business

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

Orthodoxy

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Oliver Twist

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.

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