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.
“Am I going to feel passionate about my business every day for the rest of my life?”
Growth within business is exhilarating and rewarding, but it isn’t without its challenges.
"Successful businesses today are those that have a purpose."
You have to do tough things in business, but doing them compassionately is very important to me.
You’ve got to do tough things in business, but doing it compassionately is very important.
I didn't have a family background in financial services or indeed in business.
We are a large education business and the FT and Penguin certainly play into that very nicely.
If they’ve supported African community programs or aided small business owners.
They have to be confident in your ability as an entrepreneur to execute the business.
It’s a business that we remain very, very excited about in terms of the growth trajectory.
We are still expanding and investing into new businesses in Africa and beyond.