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Quotes about Business


Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Adams Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Adams Keller

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.

Ambrose Bierce [The Devil's Dictionary]

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Henry Beecher

Just as a cautious businessman avoids tying up all his capital in one concern, so, perhaps, worldly wisdom will advise us not to look for the whole of our satisfaction from a single aspiration.

Sigmund Freud

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackery

Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.

Steuart H. Britt

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.

Art Franki

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.

William Feather

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Francis Bacon

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Hume Cronyn

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley, Jr.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens mortalium, Paterna rura bobus exercet suis, Solutus omni faenore.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Caring is a powerful business advantage.

Scott Johnson

I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".

Tom Fatjo

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Aaron Burr

He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.

Charles Schwab

Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the planet and help strengthen the universal bond all people have. Doc Childre, The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that's true, but it is. If nothing else, it's a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that! Doc Childre and Sara Paddision, HeartMath Discovery Program What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment. Mother Teresa -Sara Paddison.

Sara Paddison

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Irvin S. Cobb

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison

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