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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.

Ray Kroc

Businessman · American · 1902 – 1984

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

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