Business Quotes
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
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
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
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
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.Jack Anderson
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
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.George F. Burns
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
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.Henry Ward Beeche
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
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
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
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
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.Edgar Watson Howe
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 man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Business today consists in persuading crowds.Gerald Stanley Lee
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.Lenny Bruce
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
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
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.Frank Lloyd Wright
The chief business of the American people is business.Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
Boxing is just show business with blood.Frank Bruno
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
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
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
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Warren Buffett
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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 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
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
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
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
