Quotes About Business

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.

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

Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.