Business Quotes - page 6

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is. (Adlai Stevenson II)

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

Bob Woodward

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

Satoru Iwata

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Barry Goldwater

What helps people, helps business.

Leo Burnett

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Leo Burnett

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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.

Henry Fielding

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling

Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job." (Jack Welch)

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

Jack Welch

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Franklin Pierce Adams

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Calvin Coolidge

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

William Congreve

Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.'

Charles Lamb

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Francis Bacon

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

Alexandre Dumas

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: «It's gonna go wrong.» Or «She's going to hurt me.» Or, «I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore ...» Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. (William Blake)

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

Audrey Hepburn

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

James Russell Lowell

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Tom Robbins

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

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