Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill GatesIt is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Mahatma GandhiBusiness, you know, may bring money but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane AustenJoy is the serious business of heaven.
C. S. LewisThe goal of war is peace, of business leisure.
AristotleI've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve MartinThe secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle OnassisIndustry need not wish.
Benjamin FranklinA penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin FranklinMarriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.
Jane AustenASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pachyderm!'
Dr. SeussThe first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin FranklinEach of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar WildeTruth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark TwainThe pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane AustenMost discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions, or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.
Peter DruckerAmerican business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees, who are educated enough, that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.
Dave BarryCompany cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try instead to work with what you've got.
Peter DruckerManagement is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things.
Peter DruckerIt's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.
Steve JobsUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton FriedmanBig business never pays a nickel in taxes according to Ralph Nader who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
Dave BarryThere are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Mark TwainRather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin FranklinA grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force, as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de BalzacThe average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business, because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Andy RooneyI hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
David Herbert LawrenceBusiness is never so healthy as when like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry FordIt is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma GandhiI have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
Mitt RomneyThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettHiding spending does not reduce spending.
Paul RyanFree enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul RyanI've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Steve JobsA designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster FullerAnd fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Mitt RomneyThe new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
Peter DruckerBorrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.
Paul RyanBe the business never so painful you may have it done for money.
Thomas FullerThe cautious seldom err.
ConfuciusEconomy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Thomas HuxleyAbility will never catch up with the demand for it.
ConfuciusAction expresses priorities.
Mahatma GandhiPut not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell HolmesPeople of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis BaconIf you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
Brian TracySuccess is a science, if you have the conditions you get the result.
Oscar WildeGetting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald TrumpWe are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life in its real sense is lost.
Hubert H. HumphreyThe profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
John SteinbeckGod and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel ButlerExperience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar WildeSo many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
William ShatnerDo not worry about holding high position, worry rather about playing your proper role.
ConfuciusWhen you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
ConfuciusBuy land, they're not making it anymore.
Mark TwainWhat is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less and so they don't hire.
Barack ObamaSometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald TrumpLife is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen KellerDespite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Stephen CoveyIt is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Oscar WildeI support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
Donald TrumpIf you would have a faithful servant and one that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin FranklinWhere large sums of money are concerned it is advisable to trust nobody.
Agatha ChristiePolitics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.
Sai BabaIt is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma GandhiThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildePut two things together which have never been put together before and some schmuck will buy it.
George CarlinProphesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark TwainThere is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark TwainThe power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
Jane AustenThose who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin FranklinSouthern California is a nice place if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
P. J. O'RourkeOur relationships are heart to heart relationships. Ours is a business of love not a business of money or materials.
Sai BabaMy own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe, I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerA friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. RockefellerOur main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas CarlyleThe things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard ShawEverybody's going to be looking at these little bits and pieces and deciding what they like and don't like. There's enough attractive pieces in that business that quite a few people will express an interest.
Joseph CampbellMany a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark TwainThe vast majority who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounces it.
Isaac AsimovYou know I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on I then got the money and gone.
Dolly PartonJustice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
PlatoIf we must have a tyrant let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord ByronI'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
Michelle ObamaThe CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Michael JacksonI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry FordThe TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively a God who does a wholesale not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William JamesThe first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill GatesFor many my behavior has been a major disappointment my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners and everyone involved in my business but most importantly to the young people we influence I apologize.
Tiger WoodsThe gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose BierceMy business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas HuxleyI believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Hillary ClintonI 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.
Edmund BurkeMy essays . . . come home to men's business and bosoms.
Francis BaconWhen 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 is solitude.
William WordsworthIt's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Katharine HepburnWhen a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Warren BuffettI don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Paul RyanRaising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill CosbyThe real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
Doug CouplandNow 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.
Hillary ClintonBusiness is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
William FeatherWhen you raise taxes on small business from 35% to 40% you will kill jobs.
Mitt RomneyThe maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
Winston ChurchillWhen any educational or medical institution is established, the sole aim is to make a business out of it. There are only a few who are ready to set up such institutions to provide free facilities for the poor.
Sai BabaA business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry FordThanks 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 BombeckBusiness is a combination of war and sport.
Andre MauroisI was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark TwainContrary to popular opinion the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran LebowitzI worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
Tupac ShakurThe business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert LawrenceThere is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
Rush LimbaughLet your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive.
George WashingtonYoung men are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Francis BaconThe very problem of mind and body suggests division, I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion morals and science, the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education in religion in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
John DeweyThe purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter DruckerWhat do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack ObamaIf you were successful somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack ObamaPrune - prune businesses products activities people. Do it annually.
Donald RumsfeldTo succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle OnassisI remember when our whole island was shaken with an earthquake some years ago, there was an impudent mountebank who sold pills which (as he told the country people) were very good against an earthquake.
Joseph AddisonIn almost every profession - whether it's law, or journalism, finance, or medicine, or academia, or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust we are all worse off for it.
Hillary ClintonIt takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising Initiative and Dynamics.
Isaac AsimovUltimately who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
EminemIf you understand the business you don't need to own very many of them. If you have a harem of 40 women you never get to know any of them very well.
Warren BuffettNo matter what business you're in you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
Jim ValvanoIt is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
Matthew HenryCome come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.
William CongreveThe business of the poet is not to find new emotions but to use the ordinary ones and in working them up into poetry to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. EliotIt's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
Christina AguileraI also did this at the Tour of California which was pretty cool. Today we helped out when necessary, but a lot of what I did was talk business with Johan.
Lance ArmstrongWar is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon BonaparteI can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
Dolly PartonIt's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest HemingwayIf people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas SowellOver the years our current businesses in aggregate should deliver modest growth in operating earnings. But they will not in themselves produce truly satisfactory gains. We will need major acquisitions to get that job done.
Warren BuffettYou can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
Bill CosbyI'm a businesswoman.
Christina AguileraI hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
David Herbert LawrenceMom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Paul RyanWhen I was in college I was debating to try my hand at show business or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
Steve MartinA businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo keep the record straight it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things, we tend to be pretty paranoid by now as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
Paul McCartneyMy recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes cry rant and rave and at the sound of the bell simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis DillerProsperous farmers mean more employment more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. RooseveltI don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit because they can't give the best service.
Richard BachThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler YeatsComedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Steve MartinThe business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Taylor SwiftIn business for yourself not by yourself.
William JamesMy business is to give blessings.
Sai BabaThat's what the Romney plan is all about how to get jobs created how to get this debt and deficit under control how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul RyanI think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
Dolly PartonThe most common cause of low prices is pessimism-some times pervasive some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
Warren BuffettGiven that we are still in early 2006 the 2007 guidance is likely to be conservative with higher-than-2006 airplane deliveries better margins at both [Boeing Commercial Airplanes] and [Integrated Defense Systems] strong cash flow but low single-digit top line growth for its defense business.
Joseph CampbellMy dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow WilsonSo we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
Donald TrumpMicrosoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
Steve JobsYou know out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy but in everything they do they show they don't like business very much. But the economy of course is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet but you don't like eggs.
Mitt RomneyBusiness 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.
Woodrow WilsonI call crony capitalism where you take money from successful small businesses spend it in Washington on favored industries on favored individuals picking winners and losers in the economy that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism that's corporate welfare.
Paul Ryan