Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. 2.63K
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. 752
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. 2.04K
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. 738
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. 2.54K
To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. 640
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business. 642
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. 644
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it. 754
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. 780
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. 1.4K
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. 1.98K
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. 1.89K
I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park. 671
In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. 1.09K
