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| The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure |
| Aristotle |
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| The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. |
| Will Rogers |
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| The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. |
| Pablo Picasso |
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| The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. |
| Aristotle Onassis |
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| The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. |
| Leo Burnett |
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| There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' |
| Leo Burnett |
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| Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. |
| Henry Ford |
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| What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! |
| Henrik Ibsen |
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| When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. |
| Flannery O'Connor |
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| When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time |
| Edgar Watson Howe |
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