Business Writing Quotes

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

I did not want to write just another business book.

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

There are many forms of writing that are common, but also very formulaic, such as annual reports or economic studies. In those areas, people would probably be relieved not to have to write those kinds of things because they are mundane and drudgery.

Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.