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“Money is only a tool in business.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving; it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative...” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“Speculation in things already produced—that is not business.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” Jane Austen, Emma
“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.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“I’ve said many times that when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the areas in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to...” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“The music business is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically guarantee hit records.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.” Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle
“In such an economy, there is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open...” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I’ve done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin’s success.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much as possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that...” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity
“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless the larger interests of the many are concerned.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward
“The requisites for board membership should be business savvy, interest in the job, and owner-orientation.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“where the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“You can hardly have too much harmony in business. But you can go too far in picking men because they harmonize.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“in business . . . you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution, than for counsel; and fitter for new projects, than for settled business.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.” Aristotle, Politics
“Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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