Business Quotes

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford

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

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

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.

Dean Gooderham Acheson

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press

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

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Arab Prove

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Jack Holland

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Joseph Rickaby

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

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002

Business is a good game - Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell

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

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

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.

Peter Drucke

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours.

Johann von Goethe

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

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

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

Robert Louis Stephenson

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Donald Sinden

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

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

Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

Hurting people is my business.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Greek Prove

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