That is the only pleasant memory I have of the war. What a dreary business the war was.
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 told them, if they want business as usual, I’m not the right person for this job.
Remember, it’s not just about building a business. It’s about building a legacy.
I had never looked at a business newspaper like the Financial Times.
We can share our business model with others, but never our strategy.
The life I've been given is just a story; but how I tell it is my business.