Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
— Warren Spahn
My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody for what they do. I've got cousins who are gay. To me, there's just no difference. We always chill and have family functions the way we always have. It's not a problem.
— Warren G
I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
— Warren Ellis
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
— Warren Buffett
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
— Warren Bennis
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
Government is not show business.
— Warren Beatty
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
— Wang Jianlin
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
— Wanda Sykes
I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
— Walter O'Brien
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
— Walter Lippmann
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
— Walter Isaacson
I'm one of the best condensers in the business.
— Walter Cronkite
I was an early user of AOL - so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
— Walt Mossberg
We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
— Walt Disney
When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
— Warren Littlefield
Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
— Warren Farrell
It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
— Warren E. Burger
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
— Waris Ahluwalia
China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
— Walter Scott
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
— Walter Kirn
Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
— Walter Bagehot
There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.
A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
— Warren Cuccurullo
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.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
— Wang Shi
In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.
— Walter Hill
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
— Walt Whitman
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
