Business Quotes

John cleese - i find it rather easy to portray a businessman....
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
Marcus tullius cicero, on duties i - for no phase of life, whether public or private,...
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H. L. Mencken
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.
Henry Steele Commage
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
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
William Feathe
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.
Peter Drucke
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
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.
Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
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
Boxing is just show business with blood.
Frank Bruno
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
Nicholas Murray Butle
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
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 gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
Hurting people is my business.
Sugar Ray Robinson
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
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
J. Paul Getty
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley
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
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives
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
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.
Claude M. Bristol
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.
Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stephenson
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
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.
Jacqueline Cochran
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
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson