Business Quotes

“Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.”

-- Joan Didion

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

“When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.”

-- Mitt Romney

“It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.”

-- Rupert Murdoch

“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

-- Twyla Tharp

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

-- Mark Zuckerberg

“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”

-- Lee Iacocca

“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”

-- Jack Kemp