Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

business

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Business is the salt of life.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

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

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

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

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

God will forgive me that's his business.

I buy when other people are selling.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

My home has always been show business.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

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

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.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

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.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

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

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

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

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Good design is good business.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

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.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

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.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

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

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

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

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.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

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.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

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.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

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

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

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.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

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

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.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

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

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

The business of America is business.

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.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

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.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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.

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

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

War is the business of barbarians.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

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

I'm not into business at all.

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

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

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.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

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.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.