#business

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person. ↗

— Paul Zane Pilzer

#business

The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas; it's making them steal your ideas! ↗

— Howard Aiken

#ideas #research #science #business

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most. ↗

— Deborah Day

#values #values-in-life #wisdom #business

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones. ↗

— Gene Sharp

#elections #business

Nothing in life has any business being perfect. ↗

— James Goldman

#business

‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality. ↗

— James Joyce

#writing #business

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . . ↗

— Alex Flinn

#alex-flinn #business

Entertainment is business: the business of fucking art in the face. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#business #entertainment #humor #art

I closed my eyes and prayed for divine intervention. I waited a beat and nothing happened. Guess God was busy with war and famine and the like. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#rock-chick #business

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#preaching #religion #sin #business