2,171 quotes
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
First Lady · American · 1768 – 1849
If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
Ray Kroc
Businessman · American · 1902 – 1984
It's time for the IRA to go out of business.
Mitchell Reiss
Diplomat · American
It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Producer · American · b. 1950
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
Fred Frith
Composer · English · b. 1949
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley
Statesman · British
Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.
Jeffrey Skilling
Criminal · American · b. 1953
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.
Peter Drucker
Businessman · American · 1909 – 2005
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen
Poet · Norwegian · 1828 – 1906
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie
Writer · American · 1888 – 1955
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Walter Bagehot
Author · English · 1826 – 1877
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
Taylor Hackford
Director · American · b. 1944
People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.
Suge Knight
Producer · American · b. 1965
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
Harold S. Geneen
Businessman · British
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
President · American · 1872 – 1933
From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
John Pople
Scientist · English · 1925 – 2004
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. Forbes
Journalist · Scottish · 1880 – 1954
War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader · French · 1769 – 1821
It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.
Christine Gregoire
Politician · American · b. 1947
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
Albert J. Nock
Philosopher · American · 1870 – 1945
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
Harvey S. Firestone
Businessman · American · b. 1868
When 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 in solitude.
William Wordsworth
Poet · English · 1770 – 1850
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor
Author · American · 1925 – 1964
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
Theodor Herzl
Journalist · Hungarian · 1860 – 1904
I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.
Doc Hastings
Politician · American · b. 1941
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
Lee R. Raymond
Businessman · American · b. 1938
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
Garet Garrett
Journalist · American
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
Jack Abramoff
Criminal · American · b. 1958
Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.
Robert Evans
Director · American · b. 1930
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith
Poet · Irish · 1730 – 1774
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
Christopher Shays
Politician · American · b. 1945
That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.
Michael K. Simpson
Politician · American · b. 1950
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Writer · American
It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.
Don Bluth
Artist · American · b. 1937
Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.
Kendrick Meek
Politician · American · b. 1966
In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.
Sonny Perdue
Politician · American · b. 1946
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
Bruce Sterling
Writer · American · b. 1954
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
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.
Archibald MacLeish
Poet · American · 1892 – 1982
IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
Arthur Rock
Businessman · American · b. 1926
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith
Clergyman · American
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar
Author · American · b. 1926
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs
Writer · American · 1914 – 1997
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
Bill Frist
Politician · American · b. 1952
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
Kenneth Blackwell
Politician · American · b. 1948
We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.
Jay Chiat
Businessman · American · 1931 – 2002
My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
Aaron Klug
Physicist · British · b. 1926
I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
Dixie Lee Ray
Politician · American · 1914 – 1994