“In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.”

“The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.”

“Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.”

“I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.”

“Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.”

“A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.”

“I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.”

“And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.”

“My business is to prevent the future.”

“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”

“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”

“I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.”

“I find the business world hard.”

“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”

“In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.”

“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.”

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.”

“Business is the salt of life.”

“It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.”