Business Quotes

Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson
Walter lippman - a useful definition of liberty is obtained only...
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
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
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gerald Stanley Lee
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
Frank lloyd wright - business is like riding a bicycle. either you...
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus, Discourses
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley Jr.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
Nicholas Murray Butle
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley
Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Henry Ford
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
J. Paul Getty
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...
David Joseph Schwartz
If I love you, what business is it of yours.
Johann von Goethe
Haste in every business brings failures.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Faulkne
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
Jesse Louis Jackson
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein Veblen
The chief business of the American people is business.
Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
Edgar Watson Howe
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stephenson
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Arab Prove
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]