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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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The Government were on the look-out for a good, strong business man, with some push and go in him, who will be able to put the thing through.

David Lloyd George

Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life.

Milla Jovovich

Harry Dresden: Took cover. In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

Jim Butcher Dead Beat (2005)

I have heard that the business can start to control you. We have to be careful because life is short and we can’t just make it about the business.

Caroline D'Amore

"But once we get on the track, it’s business. It’s my career; this is what I do, what I love. And it’s my job."

Carmelita Jeter

“Most of us will fear to start an income-generating activity because we think that for one to start a business they need a lot of money.”

Lydie Hakizimana

"...Trump came to the conclusion that it is better to do business with crooks than with honest people," said Anders Åslund...

Craig Unger House Of Trump, House of Putin (2018)

Michael Morell... "In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation."

Craig Unger American Kompromat (2021)

I mean, equity is what it’s about in business. For them to be able to have equity at this young of age, I think that that’s power.”

Candace Parker

God should continue to keep me alive, take care of my children, my home. He should also help my business to grow as well.

Chico Ejiro

People in Europe can barely farm for three months in a year, but we can farm 24/7, 365 days a year. It means we have no business in poverty.

Mohammed Umar Bago

I have organized my career and business in such a way as to... benefit... I am profiting from the rare event, with asymmetric bets.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Fooled by Randomness (2001)

Fascist organizations were being generously financed by big business in various parts of the Country

Tim Buck

If you haven't got an excremental vision you have no business setting up as a major satirist. (2:578-9)

Northrop Frye

“The biggest lie and dishonesty about change or the impact of projects is created by the lords of poverty who profit from the business and industry of aid.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan

In whatever way you who teach may manage this business, I advise you not to trust too much to the inculcation of creeds and dogmas by words written or spoken.

George Long

Trump will spend far more to litigate than the amount in dispute to discourage contractors and small business owners he cheats from suing for what they are due.

David Cay Johnston It's Even Worse Than You Think (2018)

In your business, do not take anything that is not yours and on the day you end up doing so, there will be no substance in your business.

Dada Bhagwan The Science of Money (2005)

Is it a ‘mind your own business’ thing when it’s public? (The NewTimes, January 13, 2023)

Aline Gahongayire

Everybody has a say in everybody’s business now. Sometimes people say very nasty things

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