Business Quotes

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love and the business will follow.

Michel Fortin

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

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

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Jack Anderson

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

Britney Spears

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

Robert Browning

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

Harold Green

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

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...

David Joseph Schwartz

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

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Frank Bruno

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

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

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.

Charles M. Schwa

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Nicholas Murray Butle

As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

Edward Bedore

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beeche

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

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

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 first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Donald Sinden

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

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

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

Robert Browning

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

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Margaret Hilda Thatche