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"In business when you are attracting new business by the positive manner with which you have handled your old business that is called magnetism and it is practically irresistible." »Chase LeBlanc
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"life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere." »Smiley Blanton
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"business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach." »Woodrow Wilson
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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." »Henry Ford
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"Innovation in products, services, value chains and business models is the only sustainable growth strategy. New knowledge and business networks will shape the new global economy." »Med Jones
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"The chief business of the American people is business." »Calvin Coolidge
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman
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"Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly." »Aldus Manutius
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"For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life." »Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
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"Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance." »Sidney Madwed
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"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan
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"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"" »Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." »Stewart B. Johnson
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"Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"There's no business like show business." »Irving Berlin
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"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." »Peter Cooper
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"What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors" »Keniche Ohnae
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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment." »Walter Lippman
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"We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad." »Henry Bromel
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"Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may." »Jack Holland
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good." »Pope Pius XI
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours" »Johann von Goethe
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"When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business." »Lenny Bruce
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"Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is." »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
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"What other people think about me is not my business." »Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - a memoir
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"Let every man mind his own business." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The law is a horrible business." »Clarence Darrow
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