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 culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.
The future of drones is not warfare, it's enabling businesses in the private sector.
Financial Accounting is the core of any successful business.
You don’t envy the best, You learn from the best and you apply those to your business.
"Avoid mixing business with friendship. I learnt that the hard way."
“Tanzania is open for business. Tanzania is ready for new ideas and innovation.”
The king laughs. “Why would I trust a man with my business, if he could not manage his own?”
I have a genuine interest in business management and entrepreneurship.