Quotes about Business
There are no spiritual games without pains. I would soon expect farmer just prosper in business who contended himself with sowing fields and never looking at them till harvest as expect a believer to attain much holiness who is not diligent in his Bible reading, his prayers, and his use of Sundays.
— JC Ryle
Heaven is a prepared place, and those who go to heaven must be a prepared people. Our hearts must be in tune for the business of heaven, or else we would find heaven itself a miserable place to live. Our minds must be in harmony with those of the inhabitants of heaven, or else the society of heaven would soon be unbearable to us.
— JC Ryle
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business
— Mahatma Gandhi
The business in hand being to awake the whole man unto a consideration of the state and condition wherein he is, that he might be brought home to God, instead hereof he sets himself to mortify the sin that galls him, -- which is a pure issue of self-love, to be freed from his trouble, and not at all to the work he is called unto, -- and so is diverted from it.
— John Owen
The only gift is a portion of thyself.... it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Big business don't go broke any more. The minute it looks bad for them, they combine with something else and issue more stock.
— Will Rogers
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
— Billie Jean King
The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.
— Reid Hoffman
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
— Ronald Reagan
That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
— Henry David Thoreau
The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.
— George Bernard Shaw