Quotes About Businesslike

#1. If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.

Vladimir Putin

#2. Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

Robert Frost

#3. Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. reality, a businesslike approach to charity has been dominant within large-scale organized philanthropy for at least 120 years, ever since industrialists such as Carnegie and Rockefeller vowed to apply business techniques to the realm of philanthropy.

Linsey McGoey

#5. The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

Lincoln Steffens

#6. I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

Lord Mountbatten

#7. He's tall with broad shoulders, the kind I'd like to run my hands across and glide down his strong arms. His dark hair is unruly in contrast to his businesslike attire ...

Georgia Cates

#8. He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially
not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.

Stephen King

#9. One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

Vita Sackville-West

#10. I don't know what it is on an elemental level, but a beard in general evokes hedonism. It's a more lush personal grooming style. It's more comfortable and cozy; it's less sharp and angular and businesslike. I feel like a beard is more Hobbit-like, even though Hobbits themselves are clean-shaven.

Nick Offerman

#11. Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Paul Theroux

#12. The noise of the herd is tornadic, locomotival. The expression on the hamsters' whiskered faces is businesslike and implacable-it's that implacable-herd expression.

David Foster Wallace

#13. Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

Benjamin Graham

#14. She sounded so bright and businesslike that I wondered if I had hallucinated the part where she basically told us we were all going to die.

Rachel Hawkins

#15. I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm very businesslike about my runs.

Drew Carey

#16. I work in my pajamas most of the time. No matter what you're wearing, you can sound businesslike on the phone.

Juliet Blackwell

#17. She sounded fond. Usually she was carefully polite or businesslike. She had never been fond before.

Cassandra Clare

#18. I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.

Dale Carnegie

#19. She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three years before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.

Rebecca Makkai

#20. I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.

Lance Berkman

#21. The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

Guy Lafleur

#22. Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

Lynne Reid Banks

#23. Alas, a great many people play at praying; it is nothing better. I say they play at praying; they do not expect God to give them an answer, and thus they are mere triflers who mock the Lord. He who prays in a businesslike way, meaning what he says, honors the Lord.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. Conquer your customer as you would a woman

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#25. Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

Eva Green

#26. I want you, and I want you forever. One lifetime is simply not enough for me.

Stephenie Meyer

#27. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. - Steve Jobs

Clayton M Christensen

#28. If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together.

Donald Sadoway

#29. Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.

Aleksandr Voinov

#30. I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

Sandra Brown

#31. The last time I checked, I wasn't the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped ... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a flip-flop that had somehow ended up in the sink.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#32. I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

Natasha Trethewey

#33. There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#34. I wanted control over her body as I've never wanted anything before. But she wouldn't. Not this girl. No time. Got to get to work. Got to argue. Got to talk about fear.

C.D. Reiss

#35. How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#36. my marriage proved to be somewhat more populated than I had anticipated

Jojo Moyes

#37. If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

Bill Mollison

#38. Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

George Lucas

#39. We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

John Calvin

#40. But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?

Walt Whitman