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Inspirational Business Quotes

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

David Herbert Lawrence

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Honore de Balzac

Business Quotes About Success

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.

James Cash Penney

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

James Cash Penney

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

Michael Bay

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Tom Peters

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Funny Business Quotes

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Allen Klein

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Chuck Jones

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

David Zucker

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Arthur Machen

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Hank Ketcham

It'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 Hopper

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

Dick Van Dyke

More Business Quotes

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

David Herbert Lawrence

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Lord Chesterfield

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Lee Iacocca

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The 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.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Paul Valery

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

George Bernard Shaw

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Stendhal

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Richard M. Nixon

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Dick Wolf

I 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 Lawrence

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

William Graham Sumner

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

John Steinbeck

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

David Herbert Lawrence

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Arthur Erickson

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Benjamin Franklin

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

Franklin P. Jones

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

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Marilyn vos Savant

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Peter Drucker

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

Melissa Bean

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

Lajos Kossuth

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Norman Cousins

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

Nicholas Sparks

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Herbert Hoover

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