Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.(Edna Ferber)
Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.(Robert Hewison)
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.(Michael Horton)
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.(Jesse Louis Jackson)
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.(Stewart B. Johnson)
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.(Nikita Khrushchev)
There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.(Jay Leno)
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.(Henry Robinson Luce)
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.(Pope Pius XI)
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.(Julius Rosenwald)
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.(A. M. Rosenthal)
I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.(George Pratt Shultz)
