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.
Never enter a business deal with anyone who has less than yourself.
Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business.
Unfortunately, equine lameness has also become a booming business in the horse world.
Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business..
Life is in the business of making its environment agreeable for life.
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.