Business Quotes

"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business"

"Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes"

Dave Barry, Author

"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals"

William James, Philosopher

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create"

William Blake, Poet

"A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"

O. Henry, Writer

"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass"

David Byrne, Musician

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money"

Michael Porter, Educator

"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business"

Washington Irving, Writer

"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union"

John Hutton, Educator

"I'm not in the business of harassing anybody"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU"

John Hutton, Educator

"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers"

John Hutton, Educator

"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in"

Mary Astell, Writer

"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

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