I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
— The Importance of Being Earnest
Quotes About Business
Isaac Asimov's philosophy of life was that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. Abraham Lincoln is credited with a rule every customer recognizes: one company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both. William Faulkner warned that if all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, you are going to have a country town.
Muhammad Yunus imagined a future without poverty, in which museums would display its horrors to later generations. Benjamin Franklin noticed that those who govern, having much business on their hands, rarely like to take on new projects. Andrew Jackson argued that the duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit. William Blake linked trade to a nation's age: when nations grow old the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree. Celine Dion said she wanted to be more successful as a mother than in show business.
Muhammad Yunus imagined a future without poverty, in which museums would display its horrors to later generations. Benjamin Franklin noticed that those who govern, having much business on their hands, rarely like to take on new projects. Andrew Jackson argued that the duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit. William Blake linked trade to a nation's age: when nations grow old the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree. Celine Dion said she wanted to be more successful as a mother than in show business.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Emma
I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.
— The Fall
I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business.
— The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 2
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
— The Art of War
... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.
— The Prince
Great things in business are never done by one person, They are done by a team of people
— Steve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
— A Christmas Carol
During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Business is based on the well-known principle of supply and demand. You want something, the other man has it. The only thing left to settle is the price.
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold / And commerce settles on every tree
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation.
Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.