We have two day-parts, lunch and dinner. We don't have breakfast. We don't have drive-thru. We don't have late night. We don't have 24-hours.
I walked by a dry cleaner at 3 am, and there was a sign: "Sorry, we're closed" You don't have to be sorry, it's 3 am, and you're a dry cleaner! It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open! I'm not gonna walk in at 10 am and say "I walked by here at 3 and you were closed - somebody owes me an apology!"
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.
Shops may no longer be open at night.
al-Mansur Abu Ali. Germany has a similar law, even at the beginning of the 21st Century.
That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.
Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'
Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
Office hours are from 12 to 1, with an hour off for lunch.
If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.
Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.