Bad Business Quotes

There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality. ~ Woody Allen

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes I think life is a sad, bad business, Doc I really do. ~ Stephen King

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions. ~ James Cook

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them. ~ Melinda Gates

We, newbies and young programmers, don't like chaos because it makes us dependent on experts. We have to beg for information and feel bad ~ Yegor Bugayenko

Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right. ~ Malcolm Forbes

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere.
Sam Spade ~ Dashiell Hammett

If you have invented sth new but you have not invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business - no matter how good the product ~ Peter Thiel

Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business! ~ Charles Dickens

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked. ~ Chuck D

People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you. ~ Patti Digh

Hester kept her company by bringing her meals and tea, fussing over Rosebud, washing Morrow's clothes, and doing her hair as if she was the colonel's lady. "Colonel Clark is sure taken wi' you," she said. "Neither man nor beast ever talks back to that man, but you shore put him in his place over that bad business at Fort Randolph. And lo and behold, I think he liked it. But for one little thing." Morrow looked up from nursing Rosebud. "He just can't figure out why a beautiful woman like yo'self would settle for a savage. ~ Laura Frantz

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. ~ Warren Buffett

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. ~ Sarah Josepha Hale

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don't bother to sell it to another human being. It's bad business to even consider such a thing. ~ Anne Rice

COVID-19 is bad for business. ~ Steven Magee

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine. ~ Naveen Jain

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage. ~ Kevin Drew

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business. ~ Charles E. Merrill

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Facing a dangerous man was always a bad business, but at least one could calculate the odds in such an encounter. When you were facing the dead, however, everything changed. ~ Stephen King

Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations. ~ Francis Quarles

A thinking worker is bad business. ~ Jeanne G'Fellers

Come with me if you want to live," I said. "Excuse me?" "No time," I said. "It isn't your fault, but you're into some bad business, Harvey. There's a woman with two hired goons about to come up your back steps, and they aren't here to sell you a magazine subscription." "What?" he said. "Do you have an appointment? ~ Jim Butcher

In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves.. good and bad. ~ Jeffrey R. Immelt

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat. ~ Elizabeth Banks

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish. ~ William Osler

Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done. "And how well things were going up till now! how well we got on! She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked. It's true it's bad HER having been a governess in our house. That's bad! There's something common, vulgar, in flirting with one's governess. But what a governess!" (He vividly recalled the roguish black eyes of Mlle. Roland and her smile.) "But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she's already ... it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done? ~ Leo Tolstoy

Since when the hell do I answer to you? I don't even know you, hence it's none of your damned business. (Spawn)
'Well, someone hadn't taken his personality pills for the night.' (Wulf) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well, the old Autumn didn't know anything about reality. The old Autumn was quite happy living in a childish make-believe world where bad things didn't happen and where you could make up whatever silly story you liked and tell yourself it was true. ~ Liz Kessler

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. ~ Kim Novak

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting. ~ Susan Estrich

Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them? ~ Chris Murray

Politicians, singers, and preachers are in the same business, using sound to move hearts and change minds. ~ Jon Meacham

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good. ~ Ray Charles

Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. ~ Michel De Montaigne

It's not my cow. It's a sheep with a pitchfork. Unfortunately, it goes quack. ~ Terry Pratchett

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me. ~ Paul McCartney

Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington. ~ Steve Kroft

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is ... necessary. ~ Bertrand Russell

Sounds pretty bad. Are you sure about this?"
"Oh, I'm sure."
"Well, I don't know what we can do to prepare, except say our prayers."
"Good luck with that, Herb. God died in 1945. ~ Natalie Standiford

It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in. ~ Joyce Rachelle

Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad ... ~ Gregory Maguire

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good. ~ Suzy Kassem

It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done. ~ Mitch Landrieu

Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business. ~ Karen Martin

Labels not make you happy...Good. Bad. You must love you.
-Zombie ~ Stephan Derickson

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could. ~ Greg Ginn

I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do. ~ Brandon Adams

A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all ... The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being. ~ Huston Smith

I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family. ~ Tina Knowles

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today. ~ CC Sabathia

When we started, the business name was 'Fashion 21.' And change it to 'Forever 21' later. ~ Do Won Chang

If any of our refined and Christian readers object to the society into which this scene introduces them, let us beg them to begin and conquer their prejudices in time. The catching business, we beg to remind them, is rising to the dignity of a lawful and patriotic profession. If all the broad land between the Mississippi and the Pacific becomes one great market for bodies and souls, and human property retains the locomotive tendencies of this nineteenth century, the trader and catcher may yet be among our aristocracy. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

First, singles can't learn everything from singles. Duh. Nor can young adults learn everything from other young adults. To think that we're an island unto ourselves and can operate healthily under that construct is both arrogant and misguided. For one thing, we just don't know enough. We need older, seasoned believers to get up in our business and tell us what's what. We need to know where you've walked and what you've learned from the journey. ~ Lisa Anderson

Great marketing only makes a bad product fail faster. ~ David Ogilvy

I asked the Zebra,
are you black with white stripes?
Or white with black stripes?
And the zebra asked me,
Are you good with bad habits?
Or are you bad with good habits?
Are you noisy with quiet times?
Or are you quiet with noisy times?
Are you happy with some sad days?
Or are you sad with some happy days?
Are you neat with some sloppy ways?
Or are you sloppy with some neat ways?
And on and on and on and on and on and on he went.
I'll never ask a zebra about stripes ... again. ~ Shel Silverstein

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain. ~ Cirilo F. Bautista

The corporate system is fully psychopathic, and any creative people who enter into business with any of these organizations come up against a lifetime of issues. You just deal with it as you go along. It'll keep on happening until people reorganize the organizations. ~ Kevin Shields

When it comes to life, all you can change is the equivalent of furniture, paint and windows. Doors, maybe. Change the things that are in too bad a state and hope the core holds. ~ John Ajvide Lindqvist

A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence. ~ Janet Malcolm

I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you. ~ Jennifer Weiner