My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
After all the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing buying selling investing and prospering in the world.
Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest without a passion without business without entertainment without care.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions but to use the ordinary ones and in working them up into poetry to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
I never ask a man what his business is for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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.
Vulgar and obscene the papers run rumors daily about people in show business tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting loving friendships I have made.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Both my brothers became physicians and I of course wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
My business is to prevent the future.
I like Mr. Gorbachev we can do business together.
War is the business of barbarians.
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life in its real sense is lost.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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.