Business Quotes

"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today"

"I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business"

Faith Ford, Actress

"I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job"

Craig Benson, Politician

"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give"

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress

"I got through college realizing business was repugnant"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here"

Ben E. King, Musician

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"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, President

"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close"

Ronald Reagan, President

"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

"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

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

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 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

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market"

Robert Frost, Poet

"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

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

Samuel Johnson, Author

"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

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

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

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