The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
- Yeats, William Butler

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One?s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
- C?line, Louis-Ferdinand

Never discuss public business while drinking.
- Chinese Proverb

Public business should be conducted publicly.
- Chinese Proverb

Business is thirty percent patience.
- Chinese Proverb

The business of America is business.
- Coolidge, Calvin

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
- Ambler, Eric

Business? it?s quite simple: it?s other people?s money.
- Dumas, Alexander

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Business is the salt of life.
- Fuller, Thomas

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don?t do business with.... I can?t do business with you.
- Guare, John

Business is, emphatically, the amusement of Americans, and, to be in keeping with their character, every thing written for their amusement should partake of the useful.
- H

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- Austen, Jane

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Hubbard, Kin

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
- Huxley, Thomas H.

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.
- Jefferson, Thomas

You?re a business idea in the shape of a man.
- Lean, David

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
- MacDougall, Alice Foote

In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
- MacDougall, Alice Foote

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life?to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
- Macleish, Archibald

Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you
- Beckett, Samuel

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.
- Odlum, Hortense

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,?if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.
- Odlum, Hortense

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense....
- Palmer, Vance

Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it?by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.
- Parke, Henry

There?s no business like show business.
- Berlin, Irving

Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits. And necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for. (Dead Poet's Society)
- Schulman, Tom

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
- Shakespeare, William

Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Bierce, Ambrose

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
- Stanhope, Phillip D.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Thoreau, Henry David

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
- Thoreau, Henry David

I?m not in business to be loved, but I am in business.
- Towne, Robert

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
- Warhol, Andy

Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
- Wycherley, William