"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Business, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

7

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell."

Exlpore more Business quotes

"Good intentions are the best business."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Business, Intentions, Life, Kindness

"According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Business, Influence, Desire, Marketing, Power

"I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price."

Jason Patric, American Actor

Business, Successful, Fame

"Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

Business, Strategy, Progress, Simplicity, Planning

"I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively."

R. A. Salvatore, American Author

Business, Influence, Internet, Sales

"It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Business, Advertising

"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

Business, Life, Man

"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."

James Daly, American Actor

Business, Energy

"I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people."

Kevin Costner, American Actor

Business, Politics, People, End

"At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil."

Marc Davis, American Artist

Business, Time, People, Ability

Explore more quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Man usually sees what he is looking for, seldom what he is looking at."

Focus

"Every artist takes their final work to the grave."

Legacy

"Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is)."

Psychology

"Our parents would not be 'The best parents in the world' (to us) if they were not our parents."

Family

"A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world."

Love

"There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it."

Relationship

"Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words."

Intelligence

"In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist."

Equality

"A makeover is the rebranding of a human being."

Identity

"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."

Relationship