Business Quotes

“It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.”

-- Edward Hopper

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

“When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.”

-- Mitt Romney

“It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.”

-- Rupert Murdoch

“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

-- Twyla Tharp

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”

-- Mark Zuckerberg

“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”

-- Lee Iacocca

“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”

-- Jack Kemp