Business Quotes
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.Thorstein Veblen
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.Benjamin Franklin
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.Dean Gooderham Acheson
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.Peter Drucke
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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 Electra
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me.Jerry Maguire
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.Elbert Hubbard
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.Henry Robinson Luce
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.Paul Graham, September 2004
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.Arab Prove
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.John Cleese
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.Barbara Paley
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.Edna Ferbe
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Robert Louis Stevenson
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Miguel de Cervantes
Business today consists in persuading crowds.Gerald Stanley Lee
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.Donald Sinden
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.Sydney Biddle Barrows
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
The law is a horrible business.Clarence Darrow
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.Stewart B. Johnson
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.Peter Coope
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.William Wrigley Jr.
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...David Joseph Schwartz
Editor a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.Elbert Hubbard
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.Malcom Forbes
