I call investing the greatest business in the world ... because you never have to swing.
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.
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine'.
Business was so bad the other night the orchestra was playing "Tea for One."
Conducting is a difficult business...It is better to conduct with the ear instead of the arm.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
A servant's too often a negligent elf;
If it's business of consequence, Do it yourself!
Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
We aren’t going to convince the majority, but we need to do business until [Jesus] comes.