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  • In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.

  • You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

    Love   Life   Truth  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti”, p.13, Harper Collins
  • Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.

    Return   Way   Buying  
  • There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

    "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.
  • A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

    "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.
  • I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

    The Maltese Falcon ch. 20 (1930)
  • There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

  • Hurried business is bad business.

    Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books
  • Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

  • Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

  • There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

  • It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

    Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.459
  • Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

    Decision   Causes   Taxes  
  • The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

    Singing   Sound   Albums  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

    Money   War   Revolution  
  • Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

    Real   Data   Slumps  
  • Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

    Light   Law   Abuse  
    Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.60
  • Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're right.

  • Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

    FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Nov 12, 2015
  • Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

  • I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

  • I don't like the idea of telling private business owners. I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant. But at the same time I do believe in private ownership. I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets public funding.

    "'All-Star' Panel on Dennis Blair's Resignation and Rand Paul's Civil Rights Gaffe". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.
  • I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.

    Divorce   Rocks   Band  
  • Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

  • When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

    Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons
  • Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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