Business Quotes: Inspiring Insights for Success

"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

"Business is the salt of life"

Voltaire, Writer

"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

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

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Punctuality is the soul of business"

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author

"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

"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

"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

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

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"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

"Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"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

"Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

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

Richard M. Nixon, President

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

Wilfrid Laurier, 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

"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

"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"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

"Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was"

Ed Smith

"On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"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

"As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving"

Tom Jones, Musician

"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

"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

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