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.
The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
Buy stock in a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will.
The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business.
You foolish man, you do not understand your own foolish business.
When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.
I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs.