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The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

Dee Hock

Businessman · American

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Warren Buffett

Businessman · American · b. 1930

Editor: 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 Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

Gray Davis

Politician · American · b. 1942

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Pablo Picasso

Artist · Spanish · 1881 – 1973

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Emma Goldman

Activist · Lithuanian · 1869 – 1940

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Henry Ford

Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

William Feather

Author · American · 1889 – 1981

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

George Washington

President · American · 1732 – 1799

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

Wilfrid Laurier

Statesman · Canadian · 1841 – 1919

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

Jessica Savitch

Journalist · American · 1947 – 1983

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Leo Burnett

Businessman · American · 1891 – 1971

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Kofi Annan

Statesman · b. 1938

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

David Neeleman

Businessman · Brazilian · b. 1959

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Joyce Maynard

Writer · American · b. 1953

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Henry Ford

Businessman · American · 1863 – 1947

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Leland Stanford

Educator · American · 1824 – 1893

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

John Buchanan Robinson

Politician · American · 1846 – 1933

The 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 Ruskin

Writer · English · 1819 – 1900

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

Roger Wicker

Politician · American · b. 1951

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

Pauline Hanson

Politician · Australian · b. 1954

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Roy H. Williams

Businessman · American

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Margaret Mitchell

Novelist · American · 1900 – 1949

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

Hilary Rosen

Businessman · American · b. 1958

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Dave Barry

Journalist · American · b. 1947

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

Paul Getty

Businessman · American · 1932 – 2003

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Educator · American · 1799 – 1888

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Businessman · American · 1909 – 2005

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Brian Lumley

Writer · English · b. 1937

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Brian Tracy

Author · American

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Walt Disney

Cartoonist · American · 1901 – 1966

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

Rick Larsen

Politician · American · b. 1965

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Bill Vaughan

Journalist · American · 1915 – 1977

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Thomas Hardy

Novelist · English · 1840 – 1928

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

James Cameron

Director · American · b. 1954

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

Pete Domenici

Politician · American · b. 1932

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

Poet · American · 1885 – 1972

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Politician · American · b. 1935

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller

Businessman · American · 1839 – 1937

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

Giorgio Moroder

Producer · Italian · b. 1940

After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Jim Barksdale

Businessman · American · b. 1943

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

Harvey S. Firestone

Businessman · American · b. 1868

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Alan Shepard

Astronaut · American · 1923 – 1998

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Jessamyn West

Author · American · 1902 – 1984

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

Jim DeMint

Politician · American · b. 1951

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

Martin Feldstein

Economist · American · b. 1939

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