The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. – T. S. Eliot
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. – Blaise Pascal
The purpose of a business is to create a customer. – Peter Drucker
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. – Calvin Coolidge
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. – Calvin Coolidge
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. – Edmund Burke
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. – Benjamin Disraeli
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. – Andrew Carnegie
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. – Virginia Woolf
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. – William Wordsworth
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business. – Francis Bacon
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. – Charles Dickens
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. – Charles Dickens
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. – Charles Dickens
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. – Andy Rooney
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. – Barry Goldwater
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. – Stephen Covey
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation. – Milan Kundera
