I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
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.
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
E-Business will become the virtual market place in 20 years.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
We're not going to spread democracy at the business end of a M16 held by a 23 year old Marine.
The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.