Biz quotes

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
Oscar Wilde

The chief business of the American people is business.
Calvin Coolidge

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman

My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Sydney Biddle Barrows

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric Hoffer

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Golda Meir

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
George Ade

Good design can't fix broken business models.
Jeffrey Veen

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
Jurgen Schrempp

A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein Veblen

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.
Mitchell Caplan

To fill the hour -- that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.
Tara Hunt