A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
13 views from Amos Bronson Alcott
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
57 views from Will Rogers
Business is the salt of life.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
8 wisdom & wit from Franklin P. Adams
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
10 sayings from Billy Sunday
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
10 more quotes from Billy Sunday
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
32 quotes from William Blake
I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.
3 more thoughts from Roy Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
14 thoughts from Hedy Lamarr
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
21 other sayings from Dale Carnegie
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
13 other wisdom & wit from Andrew Carnegie
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
39 quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
11 other quotes from Aneurin Bevan
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
4 views from Gilbert Parker
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
4 other views from Margaret Mitchell
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
3 quotes from Andre Malraux
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
14 sayings from Wendell Phillips
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
57 more sayings from Will Rogers
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
A man should never neglect his family for business.
23 sayings from Walt Disney
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
68 more quotes from Samuel Butler
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
7 thoughts from John Greenleaf Whittier
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
58 views from Thomas Carlyle
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
21 quotes from Jane Austen
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
2 views from Elizabeth Arden
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
23 quotes from Walt Disney
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
3 more quotes from Clara Barton
God will forgive me that's his business.
14 sayings from Heinrich Heine
I buy when other people are selling.
12 other thoughts from J. Paul Getty
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
23 wisdom & wit from Walt Disney
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
12 more views from J. Paul Getty
My home has always been show business.
17 thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
12 quotes from J. Paul Getty
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
58 other views from Thomas Carlyle
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
17 views from Sammy Davis, Jr.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
12 other quotes from J. Paul Getty
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
12 other views from J. Paul Getty
You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
17 wisdom & wit from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
5 other wisdom & wit from A. A. Milne
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
9 more quotes from Barry Goldwater
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
14 more quotes from Loretta Young
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
45 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
6 other quotes from Evan Esar
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
6 other quotes from Evan Esar
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
17 sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
19 thoughts from Elvis Presley
I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
14 other quotes from Loretta Young
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
9 more views from Barry Goldwater
If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
7 more quotes from Joey Adams
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
56 more thoughts from Khalil Gibran
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
40 other wisdom & wit from William James
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
3 more quotes from Romain Rolland
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
16 sayings from Isaac Asimov
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
14 quotes from Stendhal
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
24 thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
6 quotes from Tacitus
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
25 quotes from Orison Swett Marden
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
6 other quotes from Aristotle Onassis
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
6 more quotes from Aristotle Onassis
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
14 other wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
6 thoughts from Thomas J. Watson
Good design is good business.
6 other quotes from Thomas J. Watson
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
23 views from Thomas A. Edison
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.
47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
47 sayings from Abraham Lincoln
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
6 more quotes from Thomas J. Watson
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
31 more wisdom & wit from Gertrude Stein
It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
23 more quotes from Thomas A. Edison
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
32 other views from Michel de Montaigne
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
30 other wisdom & wit from George Washington
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
6 other sayings from Thomas J. Watson
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
6 thoughts from Sinclair Lewis
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
26 more quotes from Charles Dickens
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
26 other views from Charles Dickens
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
9 thoughts from John Steinbeck
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
6 other sayings from Thomas J. Watson
You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
3 wisdom & wit from An Wang
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
9 views from Lawrence Welk
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
2 other quotes from Howard Aiken
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
5 other quotes from Jim Valvano
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
105 views from Albert Einstein
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
6 wisdom & wit from Harvey S. Firestone
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
21 more wisdom & wit from Bette Davis
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
5 quotes from Billie Holiday
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
21 wisdom & wit from Bette Davis
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
4 thoughts from Samuel Beckett
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
3 thoughts from A. C. Benson
Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.
6 other sayings from Harvey S. Firestone
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
14 quotes from Edward Gibbon
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
18 quotes from Washington Irving
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
10 wisdom & wit from B. C. Forbes
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
8 thoughts from Bobby Darin
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
10 more sayings from B. C. Forbes
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
13 more quotes from Fred Allen
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
22 views from James Dyson
Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
6 more quotes from Harry Emerson Fosdick
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
23 sayings from E. W. Howe
I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
22 thoughts from James Dyson
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.
6 quotes from Catherine the Great
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
43 more quotes from Alexander Pope
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
10 quotes from B. C. Forbes
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
33 more sayings from Thomas Huxley
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
23 views from Niccolo Machiavelli
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
10 quotes from B. C. Forbes
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
3 other wisdom & wit from Paul Tournier
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
24 more thoughts from Joseph Addison
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
53 sayings from Honore de Balzac
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
16 more quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
22 views from Robert Browning
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
59 other thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
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.
59 views from Elbert Hubbard
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
20 other quotes from Christopher Lasch
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
58 wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher
Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
15 views from Norman Cousins
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
11 quotes from David Ogilvy
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
31 quotes from Helen Keller
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
57 more wisdom & wit from Blaise Pascal
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
11 views from David Ogilvy
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
10 quotes from Emma Goldman
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.
11 sayings from David Ogilvy
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
28 wisdom & wit from William Butler Yeats
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
32 views from Henry Ford
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
32 thoughts from Henry Ford
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
10 other thoughts from John D. Rockefeller
Business is a combination of war and sport.
14 sayings from Andre Maurois
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
32 other quotes from Henry Ford
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
27 more views from Dave Barry
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
32 sayings from Henry Ford
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
32 quotes from Henry Ford
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
17 quotes from Calvin Coolidge
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
18 quotes from Don Marquis
The business of America is business.
17 sayings from Calvin Coolidge
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.
32 quotes from Henry Ford
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
19 wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
22 quotes from William Feather
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
18 quotes from Andy Warhol
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
22 other thoughts from William Feather
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
18 other quotes from Andy Warhol
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
11 quotes from Charles Kettering
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
4 quotes from Izaak Walton
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
6 other quotes from H. P. Lovecraft
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
5 views from Edna Ferber
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
18 more quotes from Andy Warhol
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
22 sayings from William Feather
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
15 sayings from Walter Scott
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
24 more wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
16 more quotes from Coco Chanel
War is the business of barbarians.
50 views from Napoleon Bonaparte
Word of mouth is the best medium of all.
5 quotes from William Bernbach
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
21 other thoughts from Laurence J. Peter
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
2 other quotes from Margaret Sanger
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
63 views from Samuel Johnson
I'm not into business at all.
6 quotes from Freddie Mercury
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
6 quotes from O. Henry
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
2 wisdom & wit from Florence Scovel Shinn
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
8 more wisdom & wit from Walter Lippmann
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
8 sayings from Walter Lippmann
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
4 views from John Cage
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
2 views from Samuel Adams
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
28 quotes from Napoleon Hill
Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
24 wisdom & wit from Adlai E. Stevenson
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
16 quotes from Paul Valery
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
8 quotes from W. Edwards Deming
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
28 sayings from Napoleon Hill
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
29 sayings from Pablo Picasso
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
2 quotes from Pierre Trudeau
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
24 wisdom & wit from Adlai E. Stevenson
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
8 quotes from Ezra Pound
When you're eight years old nothing is your business.
5 quotes from Lenny Bruce