Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldöin fugitive dreams and illusions. —Quennell, Sir Peter Courtney

What's the aim of the school of business, for example? They teach students how business is conducted today and how to perpetuate it. Any wonder we're in trouble? They ought to be preparing students for the future, not for the past. —Deming,(William) Edwards

Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill- defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business. —Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair—Etherege, Sir George

I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep,öjust a little, you know, to swear by, as 't were.
—Stowe, Harriet (Elizabeth) ne¤  e Beecher

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.
—Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair

If we are to negotiate, I envisage that we shall playan essentially modest role; that of an honest broker who really intends to do business.

Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey.
—Lloyd, Henry Demarest

Business carried on as usual during alterations on the map of Europe.
—Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

Business first; pleasure afterwards
—Thackeray,William Makepeace

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for theindividual, it isbestfor therace, becauseit insures thesurvival ofthefittest ineverydepartment. Weaccept and welcome, therefore, as conditions towhichwe must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.
—Carnegie, Andrew

They that go down to thesea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the L, and his wonders in the deep.
—Bible (Old Testament)

Will you please tell me what you do with all the vice presidents a bank has?† The United Statesisthebiggest business institution in the world and they only have one vice president and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
—Rogers,Will

The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art† The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.
—Dewey,John

I think business is very simple.Profit. Loss. Take the sales, subtract the costs, you get this big positive number. The math is quite straightforward.
—Gates, Bill (William Henry III)

Most business meetings are staged to supply people who'd rather talk than work with people who'd rather listen than work.
—Boyd, L(ouis) M(alcolm)

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
—Congreve,William

It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.
—Steuart (later Denham), SirJames

The chief business of the American people is business.
—Coolidge, (John) Calvin

Of seeming arms to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
—Dryden,John

Delegimus certum otium studiorum, quam incertum negotium bellorum. We have opted for the certain leisure of study, rather than the uncertain business of war.
—Gerbert later Pope Sylvester II

I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by 'feminine' Rodriguez principlesöqualities like love and care and intuition.
—Roddick, Anita

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for whattheyare worth and sell them for whatthey think theyare worth.
—Forbes, (Malcolm Stevenson) 'Steve',Jr

I'm called away by particular business. But I leave my character behind me.
—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Canada was open for business. And closed for everything else.
—Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Corruption is more than a poison afflicting Chinese business life. It is Chinese business life.
—The Economist

It has been a damned serious businessöBlucher and I have lost 30,000 men. It has been a damned nice thingöthe nearest run thing you ever saw in your life† By God! Idon'tthink it would have doneif Ihad not been there!
—Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. And for certain the one is a great deal better for the health.
—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
—Bible (NewTestament)

Who first invented worköand tied the free And holy-day rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business?
—Lamb, Charles

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so onöand found that none ofthesefinally satisfy, or permanently wearöwhat remains? Nature remains.
—Whitman,Walt(er)

'You're a Christian?' 'Church of England,'said Mr Polly. 'Mm,'said the employer, a little checked.'For good all round business work, I should have preferred a Baptist.'
—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

The growth of a large business is merelya survival of the fittest† The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. 692
—Rockefeller,John D(avison)

What a dull, insipid thing is a billet-doux written in cold blood, after the heat of the business is over! —Etherege, Sir George

A writer of talent needs onlya typewriter and paper, a painter only needs brushes, canvas and paint, but I need a million dollars or moreto be in business.That's a hell of a business to be in. —Winner, Langdon

He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
—Donne,John

The professionof book writing makeshorseracing seem like a solid, stable business.
—Steinbeck,John Ernest

'If everybody minded their own business,'the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl,'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'
—Dodgson

In civil business;What first? Boldness;What second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

What your government believes is its own business; what it does in the world is the world's business.
—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

When someone says,'It isgood business', you may be sure it is bad morality.
—Skelton, Robin

The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
—Hammer, Armand

They talk a good game, but economists hardly know enough about business cycles to figure out where they come from, let alone where they're going.
—Becker, Gary Stanley

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
—Walton, Izaak

As Einstein once said, ordinary life in an ordinary day in the modern world is a dreary business. I mean dreary. People will do anything just to escape this dreariness.
—Pepys, Samuel

My whole life have I lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good.
—Wordsworth,William

The main business of socialist parties is not to form governments but to change minds.
—King, Carlyle

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.
—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

Men of business have a solid judgment, a wonderful guessing power of what isgoing to happen, each in his own trade, but they have never practised themselves in reasoning out their judgments and in supporting their guesses byargument; probably if they did so, some of the finer and correcter parts of their anticipations would vanish.
—Bagehot,Walter

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my Administration has been minding my own business.
—Coolidge, (John) Calvin

We were to do more business after dinner, but after dinner is after dinneröan old saying and a true,'much drinking, little thinking'.
—Swift,Jonathan

We have†fought for our place in the sun and have won it.It will be my business to seethat we retain this place in the sun unchallenged. —Wilhelm II, Kaiser

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
—Gates, Bill (William Henry III)

There's No Business Like Show Business.
—Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline

From all I can learn, he'sgot no business, no income, and no connection worth speaking of; but then, I know nothingönobody tells me anything.
—Galsworthy,John

The Japanese should have no concern with business. —Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

This little book contains none of your damn business.
—Stilwell, General Joseph

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.
—Paine,Thomas

No praying, it spoils Business, —Otway,Thomas

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.
—Bible (NewTestament)

Whena mangoesinforpolitics over here, hehasnotime to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics.Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it's a business.
—Rogers,Will

It is a commercial paper, a paper of business, and it is conducted on principles of trade and business. It floats with the tide: it sails with the stream. It has no other principle.
—Hazlitt,William

Here is a pleasant situation, and yet nothing pleasant to be seen. Here is a harbour without ships, a port without trade, a fishery without nets, a people without business; and, that which is worse than all, they do not seem to desire business, much less do they understand it.
—Defoe, Daniel

Pleasure is a thief to business.
—Defoe, Daniel

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
—Butler, Samuel

While the journalist exists merelyas the publicity agent of big business, a large circulation, got by fair means or foul, is a newspaper's one and onlyaim.
—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.
—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Fora Jewish Puritanofthemiddleclass,thenovel isserious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious applicationö why,thenovelispractically theretailbusinessalloveragain.
—Nemerov, Howard

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supportshiskingon loyal principles and cuts off hishead on republican principles. —Shaw, George Bernard

I take it for granted that every Christian that is in health is up early in the morning; for it is much more reasonable to suppose a person up early because he is a Christian than becausehe is a labourerora tradesmanora servant or has business that wants him.
—Law,William

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

A strange, horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeare's day. —Victoria in full  Alexandrina Victoria

To be successful in business, you should produce something cheap, habit-forming, and consumed by use. —Gillette, King Camp

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height. —SunTzu

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. —Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
—Thackeray,William Makepeace

Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.
—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

All in all, if one sought to design a life style which was destructive of the individual, the way that business has structured itself would seem to be almost ideal.
—Harvey-Jones, SirJohn

I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together.
—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion?†You ought to know, that as both always wear off,'tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Music and women Icannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
—Pepys, Samuel

In Atlanta, the first question is'What's your business?' In Macon, it is 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they want your grandmother's maiden name.But in Savannah, the first question is'What would you like to drink?' —Berendt,John

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.
—Smuts,Jan Christian

Glory Be, whin Business gets above sellin'tinpinny nails Durkheim in a brown paper cornucopy,'tis hard to tell it fr'm murther. —Dunne, Finley Peter