Business Quotes

Lenny bruce - when you are eight years old, nothing is any of...
Do what you love and the business will follow.
Michel Fortin
Michael j. fox, lucky man - a memoi - what other people think about me is not my...
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
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin
A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell
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
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
If I love you, what business is it of yours.
Johann von Goethe
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.
Charles M. Schwa
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.
Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
William Wrigley Jr.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
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
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.
Dean Gooderham Acheson
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Robert Browning
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
Nicholas Murray Butle
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Faulkne
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats
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 successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Donald Sinden
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
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
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.
Francis Bacon
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
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.
J. Paul Getty
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferbe
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
Jesse Louis Jackson