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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.

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African renaissance remains an unfinished business, but the work that remains should not stop us from focusing on new priorities and challenges.

Goodluck Jonathan

Business is a sport, once you learn that, you stop taking things personal.

Amarachi Nwosu

Many people are just doing business, and the thing about doing business is that people don’t care about artistic integrity, they just want to make money.

Kunle Afolayan

People pay more of their taxes and fees in property tax than businesses do, but even for businesses the property tax is the largest tax/fee burden they face.

Susan Almy

The only business in this country today which is lucrative is politics.

Afe Babalola

Sometimes you have to get into that mindset and dream like a kid,put you into a better goal setting stage for your business.”

Mikaila Ulmer

"I have a right to be at the top table in business."

Emma Walmsley

A good actor must be talented and know the rudiments on the profession. That means you have to go to school. Education is very important in this business.

Justus Esiri

We want to offer Africans an opportunity to be able to pursue and make good living in the arts, and also teach the business side of the industry.

Maumela Mahuwa

Many companies that these people worked for couldn't pay salaries on time, owing to loss of business due to the lockdown.

Ramya Miryala

Once young people understand how tourism operates, they will begin to see just how many careers and businesses can emerge from it.

Motlatsi Maqelepo

Any monetary investment for, like, future businesses, there's always a risk. There's no safe investment. Invest in yourself.

Solenn Heussaff

We shall create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive.

Willie Obiano

Heads of courts should leverage information technology and global best practices in the conduct of the business of the courts.

Rosaline Bozimo

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Samuel Johnson

I would like to know what business an honest man would have in the Police as it is an old saying it takes a rogue to catch a rogue.

Ned Kelly Jerilderie Letter (1879)

Under present-day conditions it is necessary to have corporations in the business world as it is to have organizations, unions, among wage workers.

Theodore Roosevelt Address at Providence (1901)

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society (1958)

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

Norman Mailer Cannibals and Christians (1966)

To be watchful, I decided, was my business. And I could not get rid of the feeling that I might soon have cause for all my vigilance.

John Buchan The Power-House (1916)

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