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.
Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?
The more passionate you are about the world (and your business), the more likely you are to succeed.
Money’s what makes the world go round, having a business niche is who I am, and it’s crucial.
Talent is never enough, learn the skill and understand the business.
My husband had told me: ‘never ask me anything about national business.
When I started my entrepreneurship business, many people told me that it wouldn’t work.
Some of the worst pitches are the people who talk all fancy who’ve been to business school.
"Women are making a lot of decisions themselves, both in business and in life."
When you care for people, they care for the business in return.