Its better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. – Harold S. Geneen
You cant run a business or anything else on a theory. – Harold S. Geneen
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? Its a catch-22. Its called show business: The word business is in it, and youve got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist. – Donny Osmond
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its egotism. – Harold S. Geneen
Its a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but thats what it takes to be in show business. – Donny Osmond
A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They werent ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments. – Donny Osmond
McSweeneys as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. – Dave Eggers
Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, its around the world. – Karl Rove
Dont open a shop unless you like to smile. – Chinese Proverb
The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. – Japanese Proverb
Buying is cheaper than asking. – Proverb
Work is our business; its success is God s. – Proverb
A miser and a liar bargain quickly. – Proverb
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps. – Proverb
Cut your losses and let your profits run. – Proverb
In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on. – Proverb
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. – Joseph Addison
The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. – Konrad Adenauer
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get. – Scott Alexander
