Business Quotes
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
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
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
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 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
Hurting people is my business.Sugar Ray Robinson
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.Thomas Carlyle
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...David Joseph Schwartz
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
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
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
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.Greek Prove
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
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
Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.Elbert Hubbard
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.Charles M. Schwa
A dinner lubricates business.Lord William Stowell
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]
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.William Wrigley Jr.
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
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
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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
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
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
