Business Quotes

“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.”

-- Thomas Frank

“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.”

-- Rita Rudner

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

-- Elton John

“My business is to prevent the future.”

-- Ray Bradbury

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

-- Lord Chesterfield

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

-- Mark Twain

“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.”

-- Lucille Ball

“I find the business world hard.”

-- Haile Gebrselassie

“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.”

-- William James

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

-- Barbara Corcoran