Dashiell Hammett Quotes

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I'm a business person at heart.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.