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Quotes About Business

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
~ William Hazlitt
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
~ Peter Drucker
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.
~ Les Wexner
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.
~ Alisher Usmanov
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.
~ Lee Myung-bak
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
~ Tina Yothers
Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
~ Jessica Mitford
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
~ Anita Roddick
Society is secretly driven by sales
~ Peter Thiel
Business is society's change agent.
~ Peter Drucker
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.
~ Richard Branson
I think we have moved from a shareholder society to a stakeholder society, and that has massive implications.
~ Richard Edelman
The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.
~ Noam Chomsky
Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
~ Corinne Maier
I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.
~ Jamie Dimon
Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
~ Victor Pinchuk
Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.
~ Kshama Sawant
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.
~ M.I.A.
In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
~ Margaret Halsey
There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!
~ Ben Cohen
Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person
~ Tony Robbins
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
~ Brooks Atkinson
The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).
~ Daniel Levitin