Business Quotes
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
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
Haste in every business brings failures.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.George F. Burns
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.Claude M. Bristol
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.Francis Bacon
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.J. Paul Getty
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.Sydney Biddle Barrows
What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.Keniche Ohnae
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom Robbins
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.William Wrigley Jr.
I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.Britney Spears
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
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
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]
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.Ronald Reagan
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
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
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.Pierre Trudeau, CBC Archives
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
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.Andrew Schneide
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
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.Ambrose Bierce
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.H. L. Mencken
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.Julius Rosenwald
The law is a horrible business.Clarence Darrow
There is one and only one social responsibility of business - To use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.Milton Friedman
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.Peter Drucke
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
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.Greek Prove
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
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
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
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
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
