Business Quotes
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
Boxing is just show business with blood.Frank Bruno
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 business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.Peter Drucke
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
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
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
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
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
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
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...David Joseph Schwartz
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.Andy Warhol
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
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
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
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
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.Arab Prove
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller 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
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
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.William Feathe
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
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.Johnny Carson
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
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
Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
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
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.Henry Ford
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.Malcom Forbes
Business today consists in persuading crowds.Gerald Stanley Lee
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
The law is a horrible business.Clarence Darrow
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
