Business Is Like War Quotes

#1. War is only a passing phase in business life ... If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality.

J.G. Farrell

#2. The community of technical experts who really manage the internet, who built the internet and maintain it, are becoming increasingly concerned about the activities of agencies like the NSA or Cyber Command, because what we see is that defense is becoming less of a priority than offense.

Edward Snowden

#3. All your life has been a journey to find an identity.

Larry Kramer

#4. [2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been waiting to be told, and I think it's a fresh look at the whole earth-shattering business of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Steven Knight

#5. I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

Meghan Trainor

#6. They had the lure of the Wal-Mart volume," [Jim] Wier said. "Once you get hooked on the volume, it's like getting hooked on cocaine. You've created a monster for yourself.

Charles Fishman

#7. There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

David Canary

#8. What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Dennis Miller

#9. Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Barbara Tuchman

#10. War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere. Everyplace you go, there is something to photograph in a war, like being in the middle of a hurricane or a train crash or an earthquake. You can't miss it.

David Douglas Duncan

#11. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

#12. All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

Paul Auster

#13. A man walks into a library and says, 'I hope you don't have a book on reverse psychology.

Henny Youngman

#14. Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

Carly Simon

#15. Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

Aristotle.

#16. When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

Maya Lin

#17. I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts.

Italia Ricci

#18. I don't believe in mathematics.

Albert Einstein

#19. It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

Patrick Ness

#20. For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?

David W. Earle

#21. That's your business, isn't it, cousin? To make nothing your business. Even your own sons going to war. How I pleaded with you. But you buried your nose in those cursed books and let our sons go like they were a pair of haramis.

Khaled Hosseini

#22. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Sun Tzu

#23. Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Sun Tzu

#24. All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth

Questlove

#25. It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

Tucker Max