In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

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 in solitude.
William Wordsworth

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Robin Williams

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Gertrude Stein

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

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
Florence Scovel Shinn

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Alexander Pope

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens

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 one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry Goldwater

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.
Barry Goldwater

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Richard Branson

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Richard Branson

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan Greenspan

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
Brian Clough