Business Quotes

Business

Business is the art of making money by selling things or services people want for more than their cost. – Patrick Dixon

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“You cannot Adhere to the teachings of the church on Sunday and not apply to the marketplace on Monday”

Archbishop LeRoy Bailey Jr senior pastor of The First Cathedral; From a sermon entitled: He Is Lord

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That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
o Izaak Walton

For a dream to become reality, make it real enough to believe in.
o Peter Jones

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.”
o Bovee

Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
o Duke of Wellington

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
o Swift

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
o Helps

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.
o Theodore Parker

Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.
o Tacitus

The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one’s consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour—never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other.
o Sismondi

Few people do business well who do nothing else.
o Chesterfield

To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, “No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do.”
o Steele