Talk:Business

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• Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is a candy.
  • Charles F. Abbott

• No bullshit. All business. Nothing personal.
  • William Blunts

• Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war."
  • Christian Nevell Bovee (1820-1904), American Author, Lawyer

• The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
  • Aaron Burr, Letter to Pichon

• There's only so much room at the top. For someone to succeed, someone must fail.
  • John Calvin Byrd III, Speech at UC Santa Barbara on Film Production

• Few people do business well who do nothing else.
  • Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

• Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation.
  • Peter Drucker

• Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
  • Peter Drucker

• Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.
  • Peter Drucker

• I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine!
  • Senator Barry Goldwater

• If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.
  • Joyce Clyde Hall, American businessman, founder of Hallmark cards.

• A five-dollar bill loaned to someone who will not repay serves as a inexpensive reminder that one should deny them further credit in the future.
  • T.S. Hamilton, American financier, President, Eastern Oregon Banking Company.

• Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
  • Helps

• For a dream to become reality, make it real enough to believe in.
  • Peter Jones (BBC Profile of this UK Businessman)

• It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.
  • Theodore Parker

• The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour—never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other.
  • Sismondi

• To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, "No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do."
  • Steele

• Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
  • Jonathan Swift

• Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.
  • Tacitus

• Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
  • Woodrow Wilson

• A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
  • John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

• Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacume and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
  • Henry David Thoreau

• To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.
  • Marchant

• Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
  • Duke of Wellington

• No one fouls his hands in his own business.
  • Italian Proverb

• Business makes a man as well as tries him.
  • English proverb

• Business sweetens pleasure, and labour sweetens rest.
  • English proverb

• Infatuation is like a business partnership. It is easy to form. Yet, it most likely has unlimited liabilities. Consequently, it can be easily dissolved.
  • Neil Edmund A. Allena