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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.

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Drug trafficking has become big business for the 'ndrangheta, which has sent its men to South America to buy cocaine at the lowest price.

Nicola Gratteri

Business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments.

Anita Roddick

It’s important to utilise all skills and knowledge gained from different experiences to create a successful business.

Tomiwa Aladekomo

I admire any business or entrepreneur who has really changed the way people behave or do things.

Errol Damelin

That is a business for men, they told me.

Josephine Okot

The training was for scientists but they brought me in as a woman in business.

Josephine Okot

The African continent is being flooded at the moment, with some of the big tech players grabbing good talent here for their businesses.

Marlon Parker

Women are taken through training to make them better business people.

Gudula Naiga Basaza

For challenges of business management, we take women through how to manage business in terms of finance, human resource.

Gudula Naiga Basaza

African businesses operate informally and this lack of structure allows businesses to lose millions of dollars every year.

Kennedy Ekezie

Anticipate the natural growth curves of a business and focus deeply on resilience...

Mitchell Elegbe

If your business or vision solves a problem, people will seek it out.

Strive Masiyiwa

Let’s make this fun. Why can’t black women have fun? Why do they always have to wear the same horribly cut polyester business suit? What is the point?

Renee Cox

Music is business and every business has its own season.

Ali Kiba

I have always said that artists and public figures must always handle themselves as walking billboards, as walking businesses.

Sasa Klaas

There are a lot of sharks, unreasonable people with dirty business practices who come at you because you are independent.

Burning Spear

He’s still got a little unfinished business with the AFCON, so I hope he stays.

Aubrey Modiba

It is proved that in passing . . . accounts, the accountant took his fees, while others did the business, which I fear is too often the case of public officers.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at Wells Fargo.

Bernie Sanders

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Noam Chomsky

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