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We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
- America
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Technology
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Life Without Principle (1863), p. 485
- Work
Monks, a lay follower should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCAnguttara Nikaya (Numerical Discourses), 5.177: Vanijja Sutta, as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (2001)
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Speech at the People’s Forum in Troy, New York (March 3, 1912)
- Economics
Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War, Chapter V · Forces, Paragraph 1
- Leadership
The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Men make it such a point of honour to be fit for business that they forget to examine whether business is fit for a man.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech to Illinois legislature (January 1837)
I hope we shall… crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826to George Logan, 1816
- Government
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
- Life & Death
It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Steve Jobs1955–2011At a retreat in September 1982, as quoted in John Sculley and John A. Byrne, Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple – A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future (1987), p. 157
Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 157 (p. 89)
- Money
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815)In context
- Friendship