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Quotes About Business

But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans.
~ Paula Cole
In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.
~ Philippe Couillard
The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances.
~ Richard Branson
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
~ Richard Branson
Big Business wants cheap labor costs.
~ Rick Santorum
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.
~ Arundhati Roy
For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
~ Karl Liebknecht
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.
~ W. Averell Harriman
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
~ Duke of Wellington
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
~ Warren Buffett
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
~ Horatio Nelson
War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.
~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.
~ Stonewall Jackson
Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
~ Barbara Tuchman
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
~ Robert Capa
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.
~ Thomas Sowell
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
~ George Will
The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.
~ Peter Drucker
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
~ Aristotle
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
~ Ludwig von Mises
War is good business Invest your son
~ Allen Ginsberg
I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.
~ Rick Santorum