#ness

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#clearly #dimly #distance #hand #lies

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#business #crisis #cycle #downturn #economies

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#customer #discipline #focus #got #how

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#appealing #approach #dear #dissolution #endeavouring

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#beatles #because #began #business #divide

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#because #businesses #fines #green #health

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#business #every #every time #folk #folk music

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#beauty #because #feeble #force #right

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#absolutely nothing #ago #business #entertainment #entertainment business

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business. ↗

— David Bruce

#always #business #come #deal #great