Quotes about business

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

John Dewey

I can’t imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author’s business to write, not talk.

Agatha Christie

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

I believe that today’s businesses – regardless of their size – must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place – but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.

Richard Branson

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

Robert Kiyosaki

Government is the people’s business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Ronald Reagan

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven’t lost that. I didn’t lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven’t lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

Mike Tyson

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one’s own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Benjamin Franklin