Business Quotes
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.Ronald Reagan
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
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.Robert Louis Stephenson
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.Margaret Hilda Thatche
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
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
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
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.John Cleese
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Miguel de Cervantes
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
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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
Do what you love and the business will follow.Michel Fortin
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
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
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.Arab Prove
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.Thomas Carlyle
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives
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
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
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
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
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.J. Paul Getty
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
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
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
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
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
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
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
What other people think about me is not my business.Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
