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.
Sir Thomas was a man of business, stout, florid, choleric, curt and Cromwellian.
A smart thing you can do is try to build your own IP and try to build your own business around you
Resilience and focus are two important factors to success in business and in life as well.
The business mogul has never failed to mention what he believes is the ‘God-factor’ in his riches.
We’re really knocking out all the business, but I go at my own pace.
His indolence and love of pleasure, made his averse to all kinds of business …]]
No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses.
It taught that the business of this life was to prepare for death.