Business Quotes
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
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
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.Johnny Carson
Hurting people is my business.Sugar Ray Robinson
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
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.Arab Prove
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.John Cleese
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.Ambrose Bierce
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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 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
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.Thomas Carlyle
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.Sydney Biddle Barrows
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.Abraham Lincoln
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
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.Dean Gooderham Acheson
What other people think about me is not my business.Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.Robert Louis Stephenson
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.Malcom Forbes
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.J. Paul Getty
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
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.Peter Coope
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.Benjamin Franklin
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
