Business Quotes: Inspiring Insights for Success

"Business is the salt of life"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

Philip Johnson, Architect

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"I've learned that you can't make everyone happy, but as long as you do the right thing for your business, you'll be successful"

John Fredriksen, Businessman

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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, President

"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"Punctuality is the soul of business"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"Business is a combination of war and sport"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business"

Dolley Madison, First Lady

"And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business"

Erin Moran, Actress

"It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties"

John Wanamaker, Businessman

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business"

John Hutton, Educator

"In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business"

Paul Valery, Poet

"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I'm in the retail business, not the circus business"

Philip Green, Businessman

"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

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