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.
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
Making money from business is happiness, but making other people happy is super happiness.
Colonel Blimp is dead and buried, replaced by men in business suits.
One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
"In business, as in life, the right path is not the easiest but always the surest.”
No man knows where his business ends and his neighbor's begins.
Many Americans share the feeling that our society has forgotten how to mind its own business.
Blaine sometimes wished he lived in a culture where everything wasn’t everybody’s business.
When a priest can do any good to a soul he must make that his first business.