Business Quotes

“My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.”

-- Herman Cain

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”

-- Robert Orben

“Business is a combination of war and sport.”

-- Andre Maurois

“When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.”

-- Robert Kiyosaki

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

-- Blaise Pascal

“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.”

-- Edgar R. Fiedler

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence

“Business can be a source of progressive change.”

-- Jerry Greenfield

“Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.”

-- Daniel Craig

“Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.”

-- Michael Porter