Business Quotes

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
Joseph rickaby - a great preservative against angry and mutinous...
J. paul getty - no one can possibly achieve any real and lasting...
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H. L. Mencken
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.
J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
Benjamin franklin - the first mistake in public business is the going...
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Greek Prove
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
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
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
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
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
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell
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
If I love you, what business is it of yours.
Johann von Goethe
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stephenson
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein Veblen
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 most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Robert P. Vanderpoel
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
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
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
Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young
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
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
Andy Warhol
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
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
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gerald Stanley Lee
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beeche
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
Stewart B. Johnson
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