quotations about business
It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, Jun. 16, 1933
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
And I'll be taking care of business (every day)
Taking care of business (every way)
I've been taking care of business (it's all mine)
Taking care of business and working overtime
BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE
"Takin' Care of Business"
As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.
EDWIN H. LAND
statement to the U.S. Senate Military Affairs Committee at the Joint Hearings on Science Bills, October 1945
In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.
DONALD TRUMP
How to Get Rich
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
OSCAR WILDE
Lady Windermere's Fan
Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbour remains poor for life, because he only half does it.
P.T. BARNUM
The Art of Money Getting
Profit to a business is like food to a human body: the body must grow and develop.
W.C.F. HARTLEY
An Introduction to Business Accounting for Managers
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
New England Two Centuries Ago
To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH
address to joint session of Congress, Feb. 9, 1989
"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEY
"Policies for a New Party", The Later Works
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
LARRY PAGE
interview, CNNMoney , May 1, 2008
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
WOODROW WILSON
speech in Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 31, 1910
The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
The Empire of Business
A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.
STEPHEN YOUNG
Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good
A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
GERALD STANLEY LEE
Crowds
All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
JEFF BEZOS
Business Insider, July 16, 2015
The chief business of the American people is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
speech, Jan. 17, 1925