1. My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. - Steve Jobs 2. Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business. - Steve Jobs 3. We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? - Will Rogers 4. The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. - Will Rogers 5. I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. - Mitch Hedberg 6. The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. - George Bernard Shaw 7. If I love you, what business is it of yours? - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 8. I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. - Walt Disney 9. A man should never neglect his family for business. - Walt Disney 10. Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. - Walt Disney 11. Joy is the serious business of Heaven. - C. S. Lewis 12. War is the business of barbarians. - Napoleon Bonaparte 13. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. - Henry Ford 14. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. - Henry Ford 15. Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. - Henry Ford 16. The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. - Oprah Winfrey 17. Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! - Robin Williams 18. Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. - Robert Frost 19. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. - Warren Buffett 20. The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. - Warren Buffett 21. 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. - Warren Buffett 22. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business. - Warren Buffett 23. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. - Warren Buffett 24. I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people. - John Wooden 25. Business today consists in persuading crowds. - T. S. Eliot 26. 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. - T. S. Eliot 27. When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. - Paulo Coelho 28. Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business. - Joel Osteen 29. The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. - Pablo Picasso 30. The purpose of a business is to create a customer. - Peter Drucker 31. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. - Bill Gates 32. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. - Bill Gates 33. This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. - Bill Gates 34. Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card. - Bill Gates 35. There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. - Bill Gates 36. China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. - Bill Gates 37. I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful! - Bill Gates 38. Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. - Bill Gates 39. Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires. - Bill Gates 40. In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. - Bill Gates 41. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same. - Bill Gates 42. Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. - Bill Gates 43. I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with. - Dolly Parton 44. I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself. - Dolly Parton 45. You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone. - Dolly Parton 46. If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition. - Dolly Parton 47. I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it. - Dolly Parton 48. I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down. - Dolly Parton 49. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. - Dolly Parton 50. People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems. - Dolly Parton 51. Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. - Stephen Covey 52. If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty. - Stephen Covey 53. We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles. - Stephen Covey 54. In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. - Les Brown 55. I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too. - Nipsey Hussle 56. I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company. - Nipsey Hussle 57. I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal. - Nipsey Hussle 58. Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. - George Washington 59. Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! - Thomas A. Edison 60. Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day. - Charles Spurgeon 61. 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 62. I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way. - Elizabeth Warren 63. I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised. - Kanye West
64. If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. - Thomas Sowell
65. In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted. - Jackie Robinson
66. White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. - Robert Browning
67. I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business. - Isaac Newton
68. I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love. - Michelle Obama
69. In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. - Noam Chomsky
70. I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science. - Noam Chomsky
71. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it. - Noam Chomsky
72. Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy. - Noam Chomsky
73. 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
74. The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. - Lyndon B. Johnson
75. No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing. - J. K. Rowling
76. I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. - Billy Graham
77. I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together. - Margaret Thatcher
78. I do think, actually, one thing I noticed with Silicon Valley post-Trump is it kind of made them more politically aware, more aware that, like, business and philanthropy alone isn't going to make the world a better place. - Pete Buttigieg
79. The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. - William Butler Yeats
80. Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. - Ayn Rand
81. I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe. - Jane Goodall
82. Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. - Charles Dickens
83. The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. - Charles Dickens
84. The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. - Charles Dickens
85. Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. - Francis Bacon
86. '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
87. I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. - Edmund Burke
88. I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. - William Blake
89. What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics. - Robert Kennedy
90. My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. - Benjamin Disraeli
91. Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact. - W. E. B. Du Bois
92. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
93. Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself. - Joyce Meyer
94. In business for yourself, not by yourself. - William James
95. 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
96. Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. - Erma Bombeck
97. Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. - Blaise Pascal
98. I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. - D. H. Lawrence
99. The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. - D. H. Lawrence
100. The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. - D. H. Lawrence
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