Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
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.
A man in much business must either make himself a knave, or else the world will make him a fool.
Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.
Human trafficking is not a business model, it is a crime, and we are going to stop it.
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks — that's show business.
That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
A religious war, the vilest form an essentially vile business can take.
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
"Business ethics, integrity meets innovation and profit purpose."
If nothing else, their adventure had proved that God was not about to put science out of business.
One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards.
The purpose of the Business Colleges is to teach their students to create values by honest work.