Business Quotes

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield"

"If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver"

Lord Byron, Poet

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"In business, you have to be able to adapt and change your approach if something isn't working"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"You have to be able to handle the ups and downs in business, and be able to pick yourself up and keep moving forward"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

"Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one"

Dan Rather, Journalist

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque"

John Ruskin, Writer

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself"

Will Rogers, Actor

"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable"

Will Rogers, Actor

"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it"

George Will, Journalist

"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others"

Helen Keller, Author

"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs"

Henry Ford, Businessman

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