Business Quotes
“I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.”
“The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”
-- Harold S. Geneen
“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”
-- Dolley Madison
“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
“I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.”
-- Jack Kilby
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
-- Thomas Carlyle