Business Quotes

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Going public is not a business plan.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

The fundamental business of the country, that is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

The potter is at enmity with the potter.

We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

The government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. And I will stand up for that right.

What I have proposed would cut regulations and streamline them for small businesses.

I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.

Most Americans cannot save more than $6,000 a year from depreciating real estate. That's all they can write off against their salary or business profits.

I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business.

I think there has to be a recognition that, you know, there's so much at stake now, I mean, the business has changed so much and decisions are made so quickly, in nano seconds basically.

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

When it comes to bullying small businesses, Donald Trump is the poster boy.

I want every business to compete and thrive.

We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.

We also have to look at how we help families balance the responsibilities at home and the responsibilities at business.

If Donald Trump's main claim to be president of the United States is your business, then I think we should talk about that.

Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

I want us to do more to help small business. That's where two- thirds of the new jobs are going to come from.

[Donald Trump] actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that [Muamar] Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time.

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.