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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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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Richard Branson

When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

Will Arnett

No situation, no business will be given to me by God, in which I have not time enough to care about my soul (Matthew vi. 33).

George Müller

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit.

Edwin H. Land Congressional testimony (1945)

Christmas is a story about a baby, and that is a baby's chief business, turning things upside down.

Halford E. Luccock Whoops! It's Christmas (1959)

In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.

Nigel Farage

It is true that internationalism is growing. Economists warn us that war does not pay. It is bad business.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)

We are not in the business of finding faults. But when we detect some loopholes during the process of audit, we advise the executive to plug those loopholes.

Vinod Rai

What I enjoy most about being an entrepreneur is making a difference. By building a business we create jobs, pay taxes, and build families and communities.

Nina Vaca

We would be kidding ourselves if we put our trust in Brazil’s right-wing, pro-business president Jair Bolsonaro to protect it.

Caroline Lucas

I’ll do good work, and I’ll get it done on time. Getting work done on time in the book business is as important as doing good art.

Tim Jacobus

You as an artiste, should see yourself as a business. You are a walking currency which means your face, voice, silhouette, and everything about you is valuable.

Teni

My country Rwanda is ready. Its geo-strategic position in East and Central Africa is an asset and presents immense business opportunities for Israel investors.

Donatille Mukabalisa

“Access to finance is critical to business success. Women’s lack of access to finance has been well documented.”

Valentine Rugwabiza

“I would encourage people to support local businesses as much as they support foreign ones.”

Sonia Mugabo

I am a conservative small-business guy and farmer, I know what it's like to sign both sides of a paycheck.

Mike Bernskoetter

With this money I can now dream to do my own things. Maybe start a business. I would like to start another football club if I get a sponsor.”

Grace Nyinawumuntu

You cannot just come from nowhere and become president, become governor, become member of house; these are transactional business men.

Afe Babalola

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive race of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Horace

Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Benjamin Franklin

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