Business Quotes
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
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.Charles M. Schwa
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
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
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.Lenny Bruce
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.Ambrose Bierce
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.Malcom Forbes
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
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
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
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
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...David Joseph Schwartz
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
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
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
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.Nikita Khrushchev
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
A dinner lubricates business.Lord William Stowell
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.Andrew Young
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.Benjamin Franklin
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
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
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.Henry Robinson Luce
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
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
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
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
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
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.Thorstein Veblen
What other people think about me is not my business.Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
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
The law is a horrible business.Clarence Darrow
Let every man mind his own business.Miguel de Cervantes
