Business Quotes

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

How we do anything, means everything.

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.

I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love.

Business first, then pleasure.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.

I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all.

Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

Mind your own business.

If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.