Business Quotes

“You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.”

-- Mitt Romney

“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

“In business for yourself, not by yourself.”

-- William James

“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

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

-- Henry Ford

“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