Business Quotes

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

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Greek Prove

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...

David Joseph Schwartz

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.

Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969

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]

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears