Business Quotes - page 7

When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. (Lenny Bruce)
Buy a business, don't rent stocks. View quote
Warren Buffett
In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love. View quote
Warren Buffett
So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible And my answer to that is, no they do not. View quote
Milton Friedman
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is. View quote
Dick Cheney
I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well. View quote
Dan Quayle
Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. View quote
Sam Walton
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. View quote
George Mason
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. View quote
Gerry Spence
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. (Francis Ford Coppola)
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. View quote
Charles Dickens
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. View quote
Neil Young
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Those that are above business. View quote
Matthew Henry
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. View quote
Theodore Parker
In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations. View quote
Richard Koch
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone. (Arthur Miller)
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. View quote
Peter Drucker
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. View quote
Henry Ford