Business Quotes for Work, Goals & Success – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.

Robert Reich

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

Lee R. Raymond

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

Ralph Steadman

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Meg Whitman

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Lee Iacocca

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

Christie Hefner

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.

Fred Thompson

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

William Standish Knowles

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Richard Branson

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Horatio Nelson

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Ed Miliband

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Michael Porter

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Theodore Parker

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Rose Kennedy

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

Jared Diamond

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

Steve Case

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

William J. H. Boetcker

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Joe Baca

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Gilbert Murray

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Mario Vargas Llosa

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Orison Swett Marden

Well, the security business has been growing. I think security is one of those areas where it's to some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.

Sanjay Kumar

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

Sumner Redstone

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

James Cash Penney

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Harry Seidler

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Marie de France

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Peter Lynch

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Carter Burwell

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

E. Joseph Cossman

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Thomas J. Watson

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

John Wanamaker

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

John Morley

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Allen West

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Nicholas Sparks

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

Richard Curtis

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

B. C. Forbes