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 never worry about being too bold. In business it’s good to be aggressive, but with a human face
[T]he state is simply a real-estate business on a very large scale.
"Future shocks could exceed the ‘ability to respond’ of governments, businesses and citizens".
Our business philosophy is hinged on integrity, transparency and high ethical standards.
I recognize that successful businesses are the essence of our economy and the source of jobs.
The business was at death’s door, it had lost its confidence.
As a Nigerian based business, internationally facing supply chain projects are challenging.