I don't think that corporations are these big bogeymen that a lot of people paint them to be.
Business Quotes
Most of the names at the top of this page are working executives and entrepreneurs, Strive Masiyiwa, Barbara Corcoran and Peter Drucker among them. The older sourced material is better. Izaak Walton, in The Compleat Angler (1653), says he has laid aside business and gone a-fishing, and also that what is everybody’s business is nobody’s business. Thoreau, in Life Without Principle (1863), thought nothing, not even crime, was more opposed to poetry and philosophy than incessant business.
“The business of business is business” is attributed to both Milton Friedman and Alfred P. Sloan, and it is marked disputed for both. The line about corporations having no body to be kicked and no soul to be damned is credited to Lord Thurlow and is disputed too. The notes cite a 1981 Michigan Law Review article that takes its title from it.
An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."
When a business is bought, it is bought for its potential—for its future, not its past.
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
Do you fear to trust the word of a man, whose honesty you have seen in business?
If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur.
Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.