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.
My business is my everything and I believe it can get me wherever I want. I live for it.
My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.
All such shenanigans bring up the cost of doing business in this country.
This whole family business sickens me. Let everybody lead their own lives,"
What we think of as smooth simple space is really a wiggly business.
I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …
We see barriers to business as barriers to national progress.