1,036 Quotes Regarding Business


Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you
Samuel Beckett

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.
Hortense Odlum

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,—if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.
Hortense Odlum

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense....
Vance Palmer

Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it—by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.
Henry Parke

There’s no business like show business.
Irving Berlin

Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits. And necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for. (Dead Poet's Society)
Tom Schulman

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
William Shakespeare

Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
Phillip D. Stanhope

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
Henry David Thoreau

I’m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
Robert Towne

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

Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley