Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Blaise Pascal

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
Dennis Miller

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Bette Davis

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Bette Davis

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
Joey Adams

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
David Ogilvy

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
Lee Iacocca

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
Lee Iacocca

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca