No matter how profitable, stay away from men, companies and ventures that are based on defrauding rather than helping their customers. — Thomas Phelps
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business. — Farhan Akhtar
There is not such thing as bad times, I kept telling myself. There is not such thing as bad business. Business is there if you go after it. — Estee Lauder
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. — Jim Cathcart
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed — Anita Roddick
The sooner you cut off negotiations with someone you shouldn't be dealing with, it gives you the chance to move on to a more profitable deal. — Chris Voss
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. — H. Ross Perot
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. — Woodrow Wilson
A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney
Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one. — Vijay Kedia
Very few people in business keep their word. When you find them, go into business with them. — Patrick Bet-David
Short Bad Business Quotes
If you've got a business - you didn't build that. — Barack Obama
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. — B. C. Forbes
In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes. — Koos Bekker
You will never know a man until you do business with him. — Scottish Proverbs
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. — Mahatma Gandhi
When you're out of quality, you're out of business. — Phil Crosby
You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business. — Victor Kiam
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. — Richard M. Nixon
Bad Business Image Quotes
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A. — Emily Blunt
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
What I Do Is My Business Quotes
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. — Anthony Hopkins
I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.' — George Will
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you. — Byron Katie
My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way. — Julianna Margulies
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well. — Booker T. Washington
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then. — Raf Simons
I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want. — Matt Drudge
I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy. — Mercedes McCambridge
I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while. — Blair Underwood
Worst Business Quotes
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar
Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. — George S. Patton
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? — Diane Ravitch
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Growing your business might actually be the worst decision you could make for the longevity of your business. — Paul Jarvis
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. — John Berryman
Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring. — Russell M. Nelson
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision. — Scott Mcnealy
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business. — Saul Bellow
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people — David Sarnoff
If Party of Five hadnt done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if Time of Your Life doesnt do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business. — Jennifer Love Hewitt
Good Business Quotes
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground. — Madam C. J. Walker
A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies. — Harry Markowitz
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. — James C. Collins
The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good. — Harold S. Kushner
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. — Dalai Lama
Bad Idea Quotes
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion. — Warren Rudman
Good or bad idea regardless of price — Howard Marks
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
There's no such thing as a good idea or bad idea in the investment world. It's a good idea at a price, it's a bad idea at a price. — Howard Marks
I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas. — James David Vance
We never liked prank shows 'cause you feel bad for the people getting pranked. So we came up with the idea of 'Jokers,' which spins it upside down. — James Murray
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it. — Diane Keaton
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. — Kevin Henkes
I think trading Bitcoin while reading twitter is a bad idea. The news that governments expect you to pay your taxes and abide by existing laws should not be driving panic in the marketplace. The main stream interpretations are almost always the opposite of the true implication. — Michael Saylor
We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them. — Phillip E. Johnson
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra
I felt bad, yet I knew I’d made the right choice. I was following my heart. — Rich Roll
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. — Steve Ditko
You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decisions. — Tucker Carlson
Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass. — Eddie Murphy
If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it.
you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice — Lauren Conrad
Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser. — Hersh Shefrin
Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. — Todd Phillips
I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions. — Gary Johnson
Bad Management Quotes
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. — John Taylor Gatto
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy. — Lucille Clifton
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times. — Bernard Baruch
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad. — James Mattis
If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in their good times in the future too. — Vijay Kedia
The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past. — Sylvia Plath
No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves. — Patrick Stump
No offer? No business. No life. Bad offer? Negative profit. No business. Miserable life. Decent offer? No profit. Stagnating business. Stagnating life. Good offer? Some profit. Okay business. Okay life. Grand Slam Offer? Fantastic profit. Insane business. Freedom. — Alex Hormozi
Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream. — John Gokongwei
I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. — Chuck Lorre
I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business. — Eliza Coupe
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable. — John Robbins
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy. — Miyamoto Musashi
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
There's no such thing as bad publicity. — P. T. Barnum
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. — Hans Eysenck
It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it. — Mike Rowe
If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy. — Adrian Rogers
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
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. — Zig Ziglar
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press — Warren Buffett
The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode. — Martha C. Nussbaum
A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy. — Steve Jobs
I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage. — Jamie Dimon
Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on. — Ed Rendell
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki
We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person. — Warren Buffett
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. — Edward De Bono
Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy. — Christopher Titus
You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. — C. S. Lewis
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
The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year. — Mitch McConnell
You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me. — Raekwon
Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas. — Joshua Schachter
Businesses failed, not because of competition or bad business plans, but because they scaled up too quickly. — Paul Jarvis
I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions. — James Sinegal
Growth, as a primary business strategy, is not only a bad business strategy, but an entirely harmful one. — Paul Jarvis
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And when a good business partner supports them from the side, it creates great synergy. When someone's trying to do both, I think the music gets bad and the business gets bad, too. — G-Dragon
If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success. — Luis D. Ortiz
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
A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business. — Bill Gates
The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company. — John D. Rockefeller
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