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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Further planes could be added every two years depending on the performance of the business, with profitability coming “at a later stage,”

Monica Azuba Ntege

We are trying to change mindsets in the country by showing practically that women can be in business in the agricultural sector and, importantly, can succeed.

Mavis Nduchwa

A career in entertainment.I just got into Television.I hope to break into acting and radio as well. But business will always be my number one passion

Stellah Nantumbwe

“The golden rule is to keep communicating – 1. Communicate the business case; 2. Communicate it’s the right thing to do; 3. Communicate that you mean it."

Inga Beale

My firm belief is that a lot of the businesses women are creating feel more lifestyle.

Nancy Cruickshank