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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Some need to be told that what the Government does isn’t a game, it’s a serious business that has real consequences for people’s lives.

Theresa May Speech declaring bid for the Conservative Party leadership (2016)

He would start a business, lose money, close it and start another. That would make money for a while, and then the cycle would repeat.

Robert Kuok Robert Kuok: A Memoir (2018)

Build a proper structure for yourself and your brand. Get an office, a good website, social media presence, business name etc.

Funke Akindele

If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.

Barbara Corcoran

I always knew I wanted to own a school where knowledge could be imparted into people. I started school business since I was 19.

Caroline Esinam Adzogble