Top 50 Bad Business Partner Quotes
1. “Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.” – Tom Robbins
2. “It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets … Riches got in such a hasty manner never wore well.” – Sarah Josepha Hale
3. “The new solo album sounds like me: I’m singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.” – Kevin Drew
4. “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.” – Steve Pavlina
5. “Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.” – James Cook
6. “Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.” – Naveen Jain
7. “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.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
8. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison
9. “Today’s business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy.” – Sharan Burrow
10. “Sometimes there’s not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happens in business would be really bad for the government.” – Hillary Clinton
11. “Your business is never really good or bad ‘out there.’ Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.” – Zig Ziglar
12. “This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It’s my job to put them out of business.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
13. “The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.” – H. L. Mencken
14. “Advertising has always been the Peck’s Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don’t need and often can’t afford.” – Andrew Hacker
15. “You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.” – Carmen Ele
16. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
17. “There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
18. “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.” – Chuck D
19. “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.” – John
20. “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.” – Malcolm Forbes
21. “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.” – Joel Osteen
22. “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.” – Rand Paul
23. “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.” – Dave Grohl
24. “Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.” – Ludwig von Mises
25. “If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.” – Charles E. Merrill
26. “Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.” – Steven Pinker
27. “In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.” – Peter Schuyler
28. “The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.” – Emily Blunt
29. “That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn’t put me out of work.” – Merv Griffin
30. “When public figures think they can open a business even though they’ve got no business experience, it’s a bad idea.” – Moby
31. “This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I’ll take it.” – Paul Giamatti
32. “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
33. “Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.” – Gerry Schwartz
34. “This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.” – Jodi Rell
35. “No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen.” – Jamie Dimon
36. “We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.” – David Frum
37. “I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant – but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.” – Rand Paul
38.“The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.” – Clayton Christensen
39. “Don’t have any opinions. They’re bad for business.” – Jerome Lawrence
40. “Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.” – Tim Cook
41. “The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.” – Samuel Goldwyn
42. “Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.” – Thomas Chandler Haliburton
43. “When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.” – Leonard Woolley
44.“Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
45. “Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.” – Robert Kiyosaki
46. “Hurried business is bad business.” – Patrick deWitt
47. “I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant – but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.” – Rand Paul
48. “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.” – Charlie Munger
49. “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.” – Chuck D
50. “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.” – Ludwig von Mises
