Business Quotes

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
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin
Sidney madwed - everyone is in business for himself, for he is...
Thorstein veblen - no one travelling on a business trip would be...
Haste in every business brings failures.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
Andy Warhol
Johann von goethe - if i love you, what business is it of yours....
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.
Dave Barry
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
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
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
George F. Burns
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
William A. Smith, 1908
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
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.
Peter Drucke
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.
Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
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
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
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
Walter Lippman
The law is a horrible business.
Clarence Darrow
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley Jr.
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
Edgar Watson Howe
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
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
Do not... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson
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]
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson