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.
To any potential entrepreneur I would say, don't go with the wave; find something unique.
Brilliant minds are applying technology to world's toughest problems.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation.
Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
We all, according as our business prospers or fails, are elated or cast down.
The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.