Business Quotes

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. (Aristotle Onassis)
Business is a combination of war and sport. View quote
André Maurois
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. View quote
Charles Dickens
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
That's what show business is--sincere insincerity. View quote
Benny Hill
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. (Michel de Montaigne)
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. View quote
Will Rogers
Never invest in a business you can't understand. View quote
Warren Buffett
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. View quote
Warren Buffett
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all. View quote
Andy Warhol
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan. View quote
Uma Thurman
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. View quote
Norman Mailer
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. (Gertrude Stein)
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. View quote
Jane Austen
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. View quote
Edward de Bono