Business Quotes

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
Will rogers - the movies are the only business where you can go...
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
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
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
Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
Lionel richie - the music business was not safe, but it was fun....
Boxing is just show business with blood.
Frank Bruno
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young
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]
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley Jr.
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
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
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
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.
Charles M. Schwa
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
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Sydney Biddle Barrows
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
Britney Spears
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
Hurting people is my business.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
Andy Warhol
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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
If I love you, what business is it of yours.
Johann von Goethe
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
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin
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 man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.
Malcom Forbes
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
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Faulkne
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell