Business Quotes

“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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