Quotes about Business
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
That's just the way the cards fall in the UFC. It's about what's going to make them the most money. It's not about what makes the most sense.
- Corey Anderson
We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.
- Heather Bresch
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