The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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.
He which hath business, and makes love, doth do
Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
Though he had no more business there, he found it hard to tear himself from the hospital.
In war, proving the other guy was wrong often meant proving he had no business breathing.
Work! for through business the wise man is seen,
With it are glory undying and praise.
It is the business of the teacher … to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.