1,036 Quotes Regarding Business


I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball

In business for yourself, not by yourself.
William James

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.
William James

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
Donald Trump

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

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez

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

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach

War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Margaret Thatcher

My business is to prevent the future.
Ray Bradbury

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
Carroll O'Connor

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
Carroll O'Connor

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'Connor

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
Billy Graham

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso