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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Billy Sunday

Clergyman · American · 1862 – 1935

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Jim Barksdale

Businessman · American · b. 1943

In 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 Wordsworth

Poet · English · 1770 – 1850

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Gore Vidal

Novelist · American · b. 1925

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

Businessman · American · b. 1930

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Donald Rumsfeld

Politician · American · b. 1932

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Herbert Hoover

President · American · 1874 – 1964

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Abraham Lincoln

President · American · 1809 – 1865

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Shawn Fanning

Businessman · American · b. 1980

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Anita Roddick

Businessman · English · b. 1942

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Keller

Author · American · 1880 – 1968

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Thomas Fuller

Clergyman · English · 1608 – 1661

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

Poet · English · 1775 – 1864

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Christopher Lasch

Historian · American · 1932 – 1994

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

Manuel Puig

Author · Argentinian · 1932 – 1990

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Blaise Pascal

Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

Norman Lear

Producer · American · b. 1922

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Politician · American · 1911 – 1978

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

Artist · American · 1927 – 1987

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

Robert Anton Wilson

Writer · American · b. 1932

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

President · American · 1743 – 1826

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. A. Milne

Author · English · 1882 – 1956

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Calvin Klein

Designer · American · b. 1942

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

Artist · American · 1927 – 1987

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Warren Buffett

Businessman · American · b. 1930

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Jim Cooper

Politician · American · b. 1954

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Edgar Watson Howe

Editor · American · 1853 – 1937

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain

Author · American · 1835 – 1910

To 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 Gracian

Philosopher · Spanish · 1601 – 1658

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

Eddie Campbell

Artist · Scottish · b. 1955

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

Robert Falcon Scott

Explorer · British · 1868 – 1912

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Dave Barry

Journalist · American · b. 1947

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Politician · American · b. 1935

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Fran Lebowitz

Journalist · American · b. 1951

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

Lawyer · American · 1857 – 1938

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Gerald Scarfe

Artist · British · b. 1936

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

David Geffen

Businessman · American · b. 1943

The 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 Ford

Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow

Novelist · American · 1914 – 2005

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

Calvin Coolidge

President · American · 1872 – 1933

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

Alphonso Jackson

Public Servant · American · b. 1945

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

Martin Lewis Perl

Physicist · American · b. 1927

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Politician · American · 1900 – 1965

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

Author · English · 1826 – 1877

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

Norman Lear

Producer · American · b. 1922

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