Practical Business Quotes

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If someone shows promise in a trade, why not give them practical business advice, teach them how to handle money, show them the ways they can start their own business, and help them to become fully trained? ~ Erin Osborne

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. ~ Jeremy Rifkin

The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the very practical business of urban life and the maintenance of cleanliness and civility on city streets. If we don't trust each other, our towns will look horrible and be nasty places to live. Moreover, she observed, you cannot institutionalize trust. Once corroded, it is virtually impossible to restore. ~ Tony Judt

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention. ~ Charlie Munger

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball

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There is a direct line that runs from our doctrine to our actions, from what is in our minds to what is in our words and ways ... The heart spills over into life. Thoughts of God, and of all else, erupt into acts. The filling of the heart with wise thoughts of God becomes the most important, the most practical, business in the world. ~ Tom Wells

It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government
not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students. ~ Fred Rodell

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough. ~ Victor Koo

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. ~ Dorothy Gallagher

There is an economy in your mind ~ Nicky Verd

I know I'm not going to book everything I go in on, and that's just the nature of the business. You have to keep hustling and not get down on it. You have to keep at it and find your way in. Everybody's story is different. ~ Rob Brown

My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together. ~ Christian Slater

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. ~ Arthur Wellesley

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best. ~ Charlie Munger

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again. ~ Nikita Khrushchev

This western-front business couldn't be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn't. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes. The Russians and Italians weren't any good on this front. You had to have a whole-souled sentimental equipment going back further than you could remember. You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in Valence and beer gardens in Unter den Linden and weddings at the mairie, and going to the Derby, and your grandfather's whiskers. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do. ~ Action Bronson

What is my business in this? Oh yea, it is my business. It is not just my business, it is my calling. ~ Sunday Adelaja

When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of science. I conceive that this is no accident, as if one bought a top hat for a wedding, and discovered later when a fire broke out, that it could be used as a water bucket. ~ James R Newman

Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ~ China Mieville

When you have a creative business and ideas generated from people working together, I think you can work happier together. ~ Diane Nelson

"Thanks," many small businesspeople are saying, "but no thanks. Forget the government credits and loan programs, and just get rid of all the bureaucratic red tape and high taxes which make it hard to build businesses, hire employees and meet our payroll." ~ Oliver DeMille

So began one of the fiercest and strangest battles ever fought, a battle that involved all manner of business supplies, elegant clothing and accessories, and no shortage of trickery and taunts. ~ Trenton Lee Stewart

Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure. ~ Richard Branson

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. ~ Denise Morrison

Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person. ~ Ralph Nader

A male star named "T.T. Boy" ... is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners ... Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind of admiring, solid applause reserved for a large artillery piece going by in a parade. ~ George Plimpton

I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you. ~ Jamie McGuire

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business. ~ Sissy Spacek

When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when neither sex, race, color, or previous condition is held as a bar to the exercise of human faculties, the world will hold in its hands the promise of a millennium which will work out its own fulfillment. ~ Matilda Joslyn Gage

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back ~ John Maynard Keynes

Life is based on leverage. The more you know how to leverage life, the more successful you will become. ~ Ehab Atalla

I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!' ~ Joe Manchin

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. ~ Lisa Unger

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps ~ Itay Talgam

What other people think of you is none of your business; what you think of other people is ALL of your business. ~ Rainn Wilson