Business Quotes
Ambler, Eric
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
Austen, Jane
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Beckett, Samuel
Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you
Berlin, Irving
There’s no business like show business.
Bierce, Ambrose
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
Chinese Proverb
Never discuss public business while drinking.
Chinese Proverb
Business is thirty percent patience.
Chinese Proverb
Public business should be conducted publicly.
Coolidge, Calvin
The business of America is business.
Dumas, Alexander
Business? it’s quite simple: it’s other people’s money.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
Fuller, Thomas
Business is the salt of life.
Guare, John
I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don’t do business with.... I can’t do business with you.
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Business is, emphatically, the amusement of Americans, and, to be in keeping with their character, every thing written for their amusement should partake of the useful.
Hubbard, Kin
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Huxley, Thomas H.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Jefferson, Thomas
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.
Lean, David
You’re a business idea in the shape of a man.
MacDougall, Alice Foote
In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
MacDougall, Alice Foote
In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
MacLeish, Archibald
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
Odlum, Hortense
... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,—if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.
Odlum, Hortense
As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.
Palmer, Vance
It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense....
Parke, Henry
Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it—by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.
Schulman, Tom
Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits. And necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for. (Dead Poet's Society)
Shakespeare, William
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
Stanhope, Phillip D.
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
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A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
Thoreau, Henry David
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Towne, Robert
I’m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
Warhol, Andy
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Wycherley, William
Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Yeats, William Butler
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.