Business Quotes

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

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Arab Prove

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

Henry Ford

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

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

Robert Browning

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

Pope Pius XI

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

J. Paul Getty

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi

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 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

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

Robert Browning

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Nicholas Murray Butle

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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 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

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

Harold Green

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

George F. Burns

The law is a horrible business.

Clarence Darrow

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

Andy Warhol

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

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

Greek Prove

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

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

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.

Charles M. Schwa

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925