Quotes about Business
Until that moment of utterance, every objective analysis of economic production in Egypt would have concluded that the pain of the peasants is a necessary, normal, even natural arrangement of labor—the cost of doing business.
— Walter Brueggemann
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
— Washington Irving
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
— Wendell Berry
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
— Clayton M. Christensen
The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There's somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there's not a lot of support for the family.
— James Dobson
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
— Sam Walton
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
— Herbert Hoover
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men.
— Samuel Johnson
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.
— Jay-Z
When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.
— Reinhard Bonnke