Business Quotes
“Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
-- A. A. Milne
“The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.”
-- John Sununu
“The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.”
-- Andre Maurois
“Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.”
-- David Ogilvy
“Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.”
-- Theresa May
“Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.”
-- Ayrton Senna
“I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.”
-- Donny Osmond
“I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.”
-- Doug Coupland
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
-- Khalil Gibran
“I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”
-- David Byrne
“Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.”
-- Paul Ryan
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”
-- Alfred North Whitehead