Quotes About Business

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

The position now taken by the Government is absolutely destructive of legitimate business, because they outline no rule of conduct for business of any magnitude.

Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1 200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

Being an investment banker has given me a front row seat at the center of innovation

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Captains of Industry.

You don't want to be great to start anything like business or any other but you will become great once you started

There are lots of people building the next TransferWise, not in a sense of competing with us but in a sense of building large, successful companies that are doing something important. I just enjoy helping these founders navigate the journey.

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

I definitely will reach out to Cuban in the near future for advice going forward. Now that I'll be on the business side of things - and he's had a lot of success with that - that would be a guy to go to.

When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

You need just as much drive to be a good businessman as you do to excel as an athlete.

France desperately needs to work on its competitiveness and attractiveness.

Africa needs roads. Roads bring know-how and fertilizer to farmers and ideas and business for commerce.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.