Business Quotes

“I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.”

-- Elizabeth Warren

“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