Business Quotes

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

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Haste in every business brings failures.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

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

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

Sidney Madwed

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

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Lenny Bruce

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

B. C. Forbes

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

Henry Ford

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

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

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi

The law is a horrible business.

Clarence Darrow

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

I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.

Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

Pope Pius XI

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

Nicholas Murray Butle

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Andrew Young

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

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.

Malcom Forbes

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnny Carson

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

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

Robert Browning

Let every man mind his own business.

Miguel de Cervantes

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

George F. Burns

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

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

Harold Green

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

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

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.

Carmen Electra

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

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