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 starting out, ensure your business has adequate capital for growth.
Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.
Getting some of your people killed is part of the business of command.
“We must tell investors to bring their money, do business, and invest in Liberia,”
And power, as always, is seen as a trampoline to do big business, to straddle sources of finance.
The music business is not the easiest career path, especially as a woman