Business Quotes

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press

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

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

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

Henry Steele Commage

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

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

Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Faulkne

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

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

Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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.

Andrew Schneide

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

Harold Green

If I love you, what business is it of yours.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

J. Paul Getty

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

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

Henry Ward Beeche

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

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

Boxing is just show business with blood.

Frank Bruno

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

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

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

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 dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Thorstein Veblen

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Andrew Young

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

David Joseph Schwartz