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.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
Most governments lie to each other. That’s the way business gets done.
When you trade among the stars, there is no repeat business.
But waiting for a messiah is a long business and you get many fake ones.
Obviously it’s impossible to do business with you Homo sapiens; you’re adept, polished liars.
The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.