Business Necessity Quotes

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.

Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don't think it's going to go away.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.

Cutting off the flow of capital is like cutting off the flow of oxygen. Virtue alone will not produce oxygen.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

My airplanes are necessary machines, as necessary to this business as our meat slicers.

Advertise, or go under.

The Internet means everything to everybody and it's growing by the day. You can't survive as a business, especially a small business, without having some form of good Internet presence; whether you're a shop or it's a showcase or just a way to talk to your customers.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.