“You have got through the difficult business, now you dig, dig, dig, until you are safe.”
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.
I want to build this business as long as the customers will keep eating my sandwiches.
Nigeria has no business being poor, we have all it takes to make Africa great.
There is no laziness in any business, that wants to succeed.
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
If you’re minding someone else’s business, no one is minding yours.
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head.