Business Quotes

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Keniche Ohnae

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

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives

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

Britney Spears

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beeche

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]

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

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

D. March

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

Let every man mind his own business.

Miguel de Cervantes

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty

Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

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

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

Lionel Richie

The law is a horrible business.

Clarence Darrow

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 today consists in persuading crowds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

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

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

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

Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969

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 can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

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

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

George F. Burns