Business Quotes
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.Paul Graham, September 2004
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.Jacqueline Cochran
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
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.Charles M. Schwa
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...David Joseph Schwartz
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.Peter Drucke
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
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
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 gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.Ambrose Bierce
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
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
Boxing is just show business with blood.Frank Bruno
Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.J. Paul Getty
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.Margaret Hilda Thatche
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 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
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
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
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.Dean Gooderham Acheson
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
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
