Business Quotes

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

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. On steel industry executives who increased prices.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stephenson

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Robert P. Vanderpoel

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Arab Prove

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

David Joseph Schwartz

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Will Rogers

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

Lionel Richie