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This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

Business is the salt of life.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don?t do business with.... I can?t do business with you.

Business is, emphatically, the amusement of Americans, and, to be in keeping with their character, every thing written for their amusement should partake of the useful.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.

You?re a business idea in the shape of a man.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life?to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Business, old man, I said, retire from business, it has retired from you

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,?if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense....

Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it?by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.

There?s no business like show business.

Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are noble pursuits. And necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for. (Dead Poet's Society)

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.