Business Quotes - page 2

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. (William Wordsworth)
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. View quote
Stendhal
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. View quote
Izaak Walton
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. View quote
Horatio Nelson
A man should never neglect his family for business. View quote
Walt Disney
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. View quote
Michael Fox
Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. View quote
Samuel Pepys
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill". (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)
Punctuality [...] is the soul of business. View quote
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. View quote
Thomas Malthus
I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more. View quote
Nat King Cole
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. View quote
Alexander Pope
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. View quote
Steve Martin
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. View quote
Edmund Burke
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business. View quote
Aaron Burr
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. (Alfred North Whitehead)
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. View quote
Marvin Bower
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. View quote
Marvin Bower
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. View quote
Charles Barkley
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. View quote
Paul Valéry