A Quote by Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois

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Business War Combination Sport

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Andre Maurois
French - Writer
July 26, 1885 - October 9, 1967

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

D. W Brogan

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

Mark Cuban

I'm a competitive person. Business is a much more competitive sport than any real sport. It's 24x7x365. I'm a business adrenaline junky.

Mark Cuban

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Robert Sheckley

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

Henry L. Stimson

I think one thing Liberty finds frustrating is a lot of this business is conducted through the media. That's something they're not used to with American sport. There's that constant comparison of America sport and franchises verses Formula One - American sport works in America, it doesn't work globally.

Christian Horner

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

Beth Brooke

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Karel Capek

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Marc Andreessen

Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Chris Hedges

Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

Mitt Romney

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Christian Nestell Bovee

But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect - sorry Nico if I have to say this - you are not so good for my business.