The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. William Butler Yeats
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Never discuss public business while drinking. Chinese Proverb
Public business should be conducted publicly. Chinese Proverb
International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. Eric Ambler
Business? it’s quite simple: it’s other people’s money. Alexander Dumas
This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don’t do business with.... I can’t do business with you. John Guare
Business is, emphatically, the amusement of Americans, and, to be in keeping with their character, every thing written for their amusement should partake of the useful. H
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kin Hubbard
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. Thomas H. Huxley
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little. Thomas Jefferson
You’re a business idea in the shape of a man. David Lean
In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top. Alice Foote MacDougall
In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want. Alice Foote MacDougall
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