Business Quotes

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

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

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

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 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

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

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

Sidney Madwed

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

Lenny Bruce

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

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Thomas Jefferson

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

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

If I love you, what business is it of yours.

Johann von Goethe

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

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

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

J. Paul Getty