It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
Mahatma GandhiNo man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho MarxI'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 FranklinASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pachyderm!'
Dr. SeussNever be so busy as not to think of others.
Mother TeresaThe first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin FranklinThe pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane AustenAfter 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 CoolidgeMost 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 DruckerBig 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 BarryRather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin FranklinDiscourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham LincolnA grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force, as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de BalzacI 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 FordThe time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will RogersThe business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren BuffettHiding spending does not reduce spending.
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 DruckerThe 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.
ConfuciusIf 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 TracyGetting 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 TrumpReligion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel HawthorneGod and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel ButlerSo many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
William ShatnerWhat 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 TrumpThere 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 AustenSouthern California is a nice place if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
P. J. O'RourkeMy 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 SchwarzeneggerOur 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 AsimovThe one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles DickensIf 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 ObamaI 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 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 WordsworthThe true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
Brian TracyIt'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 BuffettRaising 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 CouplandThe best minds are not in government. If any were business would steal them away.
Ronald ReaganNow 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 FordI 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 LawrenceThat business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
Mitt RomneyThe art which we may call generally art of the wayside as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives is in the best sense of the word Grotesque.
John RuskinThere 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 OnassisMaking money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy WarholThe duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business protecting all in their legal pursuits granting exclusive privileges to none.
Andrew JacksonIn 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 AsimovIf 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 never ask a man what his business is for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. LovecraftIt's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest HemingwayOver 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 LawrenceWhen 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. ChestertonProsperous farmers mean more employment more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. RooseveltComedy 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 BabaLook at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy, profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren BuffettThat'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 PartonCreative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
Jim CarreyI never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business the business of building entertainment.
Walt DisneyThe 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 BuffettPeople of great position are servants times three servants of their country servants of fame and servants of business.
Francis BaconMickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt DisneyI'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty.
Warren BuffettThe people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo PicassoBusinesswise everything's been good.
Tiger WoodsWhen I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume I looked ridiculous. But this is my business, I have to humiliate myself.
Jerry SeinfeldLove has always been the most important business in my life I should say the only one.
StendhalGiven 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 CampbellAll animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel ButlerThe business of America is business.
Calvin CoolidgeCamping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
Dave BarryI don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
Hillary ClintonMy 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 WilsonI know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and yes I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Mitt RomneyWe don't seem to be able to check crime so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will RogersNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without a passion without business without entertainment without care.
Blaise PascalOne irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting loving friendships I have made.
Carroll O'ConnorThis is a fantastic time to be entering the business world because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill GatesI will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy and I'd be foolish to try. In this business you have to know when to get off.
Lucille BallThere's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Tupac ShakurI have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'ConnorSo long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.
David Herbert LawrenceNationalizing businesses nationalizing banks is not a solution for the democratic party it's the objective.
Rush LimbaughOne of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel ButlerWhen you're young you look at television and think there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve JobsI think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
Jim CarreyI must Create a System or be enslaved by another Man's, / I will not Reason and Compare, my business is to Create.
William BlakeThe last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack ObamaSo 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 TrumpIn this business you have to develop a thick skin but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
Taylor SwiftIn modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William WordsworthTowns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
Honore de BalzacMen in great place are thrice servants - servants of the sovereign or state servants of fame and servants of business.
Francis BaconThe competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry FordWashington has to become an ally of business not the opposition of business.
Mitt RomneyThe real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert ParkerCompetition is the keen cutting edge of business always shaving away at costs.
Henry FordI've always been a businesswoman.
Kim KardashianBusiness and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
Mitt RomneyAlthough I'm a business major out of McGill University I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life nobody knows anything.
William ShatnerYoung lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business.
Washington IrvingMy 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.
Benjamin DisraeliOur business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis StevensonBusiness today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. EliotIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Gertrude SteinIt's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business as it were and I use almost pure turpentine to start with adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help and that's my method.
Edward HopperI have had my different husbands my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.
Ingrid BergmanIn business or in life don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert HubbardThe golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett MardenThe life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation, his friends his pleasures patrons and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore de BalzacI don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure once I've done my job it's none of my business.
Johnny DeppPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis StevensonMicrosoft 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 need an outstanding manager - you can define that in many ways... but you are looking for the best player out there. We are looking for the best player in this kind of business in the world.
Warren BuffettYou 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 RomneyI think I'm in a business where you have to look good and it's totally youth-oriented.
Joan RiversBusiness is the salt of life.
VoltaireThe ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.
Warren BuffettEvery young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward BeecherBusiness 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 WilsonIn this business by the time you realize you're in trouble it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time you're gone.
Bill GatesI think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David ThoreauIf a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Alexander PopeFreedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
Mitt RomneyI don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
Billy GrahamI love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.
Will SmithTo be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar GracianReforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.
Mitt RomneyI was at this casino minding my own business and this guy came up to me and said "You're gonna have to move you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs you are never blocking a fire exit.
Mitch HedbergI 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 RyanMeasure not dispatch by the time of sitting but by the advancement of business
Francis BaconTime is the measure of business.
Francis BaconEditor: 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.
Elbert HubbardYour premium brand had better be delivering something special or it's not going to get the business.
Warren BuffettEmployers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Stephen CoveyLet us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de MontaigneOnly he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau