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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Behind every small business, there is a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these did not come out of nowhere.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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.

I do not want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That Does not improve what I am trying to do. I figure, once I have done my job, it is none of my business.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

I know what it is like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

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

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.;Thomas Paine;business 7542;It is a business you go into because your an egocentric. It is a very embarrassing profession.;Katharine Hepburn;business 7543;I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.;Hillary Clinton;business 7544;The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.;Andrew Jackson;business 7545;I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can not help it. It is the truth.;Charlie Chaplin;business 7546;I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I do be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.;Lucille Ball;business 7547;In business for yourself, not by yourself.;William James;business 7548;The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.;William James;business 7549;I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it is time America was run like a business.;Donald Trump;business 7550;Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can not mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.;William S. Burroughs;business 7551;Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.;Thomas Carlyle;business 7552;No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.;Orison Swett Marden;business 7553;Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it is business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you do not love what you are doing and you can not give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.;Al Lopez;business 7554;We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.;Hubert H. Humphrey;business 7555;I do not want to do business with those who do not make a profit, because they can not give the best service.;Richard Bach;business 7556;War is the business of barbarians.;Napoleon Bonaparte;business 7557;I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.;Margaret Thatcher;business 7558;My business is to prevent the future.;Ray Bradbury;business 7559;Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.;Carroll O'Connor;business 7560;I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.;Carroll O'Connor;business 7561;One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.;Carroll O'Connor;business 7562;Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.;Carroll O'Connor;business 7563;I do not think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I do not think they know how to run a trailer park.;Billy Graham;business 7564;The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.;Pablo Picasso;business 7565;I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.;H. P. Lovecraft;business 7566;Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.;Hillary Clinton;business 7567;Business today consists in persuading crowds.;T. S. Eliot;business 7568;I do not think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.;Hillary Clinton;business 7569;Getting money is not all a man business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.;Samuel Johnson;business 7570;The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.