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.
You know this business has to be stopped, Simon. And you are the only man who can do it.
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas?
The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.
A Man is to go about his own Business as if he had not a Friend in the World to help him in it.
Hence the most scientific classification is a rough-and-ready business at the best.
"The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death"
Really? It made a crazy sense. Maybe perfect sense to somebody in the religion business.