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'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.
Demola Aladekomo opens up to Joy Marcus about his experiences in business and other issues
Trust is the business we’re in. We’ve been working tirelessly to regain that trust
That have benefited me to gain business or a position in a company.
Who is Robert Gumede
We exist because our clients still want to do business with us
If we want to be competitive, we need to understand that publishing is a business
Interview by Maria Bartiromo in Business Week, 23 July, 2007.