Business Quotes

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
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
Julius rosenwald - early in my business career i learned the folly...
William shakespeare, hamlet, act 3, scene 3 - though inclination be as sharp as will, my...
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
Let every man mind his own business.
Miguel de Cervantes
H. l. mencken - the government consists of a gang of men exactly...
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.
Harold Green
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Greek Prove
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
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
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
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
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.
Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.
Claude M. Bristol
The chief business of the American people is business.
Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
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 whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
If I love you, what business is it of yours.
Johann von Goethe
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Henry Ford
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.
Malcom Forbes
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill - Success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
Barbara Paley
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
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
Sidney Madwed
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gerald Stanley Lee
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus, Discourses
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
Arab Prove
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein Veblen
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
Nicholas Murray Butle
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
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
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
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