Business Quotes
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
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
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Miguel de Cervantes
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
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.Lenny Bruce
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.Malcom Forbes
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
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.Andy Warhol
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.Thomas Carlyle
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
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
What other people think about me is not my business.Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp - Looking report.Dave Barry
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
If I love you, what business is it of yours.Johann von Goethe
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.Margaret Hilda Thatche
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.Robert Louis Stephenson
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.Dean Gooderham Acheson
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
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
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
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Warren Buffett
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
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.Stewart B. Johnson
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
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
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
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
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.John Cleese
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
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
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
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.Abraham Lincoln
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.Benjamin Franklin
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
