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.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
It is better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity.
Everybody seemed to be in show business; what the hell had happened to the audience?
In life, business and relationships the key to fulfilment is consistency.
The representatives of labor should have a voice in the management of the business.
It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.