Business Quotes
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.Will Rogers
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
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
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
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.Ronald Reagan
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
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
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.Nicholas Murray Butle
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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
A dinner lubricates business.Lord William Stowell
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
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
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
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
Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.Benjamin Franklin
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.Thorstein Veblen
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
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
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
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?Sidney Madwed
Business today consists in persuading crowds.Gerald Stanley Lee
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
Hurting people is my business.Sugar Ray Robinson
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
The success combination in business is Do what you do better... and Do more of what you do...David Joseph Schwartz
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.Jack Anderson
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
