Business Quotes

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Milton Friedman

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

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Frank Bruno

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

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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 first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

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

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Ronald Reagan

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud