Business Quotes
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.Benjamin Franklin
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
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.Andrew Schneide
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
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.Lenny Bruce
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
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.Dean Gooderham Acheson
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.Joseph Rickaby
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Robert Louis Stevenson
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.Henry Ford
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The law is a horrible business.Clarence Darrow
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
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.Julius Rosenwald
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
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.Abraham Lincoln
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?Sidney Madwed
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.Nicholas Murray Butle
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.Francis Bacon
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
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.Paul Graham, September 2004
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.Henry Robinson Luce
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
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
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare
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
