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.”
“Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.”
-- John Sununu
“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
-- Howard Nemerov
“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
-- David Herbert Lawrence
“I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.”
-- Donald Trump
“I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.”
-- Barbara Corcoran