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

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

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"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

"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

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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

"The first mistake in public business is the going into it"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"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

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

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"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

"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

"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"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

"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

"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 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

"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

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