I have made the tough decisions always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

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.

In business for yourself not by yourself.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy and I'd be foolish to try. In this business you have to know when to get off.

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.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

'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.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

When you raise taxes on small business from 35% to 40% you will kill jobs.

Washington has to become an ally of business not the opposition of business.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and yes I know how it can help from time- to-time.

And fifth we will champion small businesses America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

If a business does well the stock eventually follows.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure once I've done my job it's none of my business.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Behind every small business there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities the restaurants cleaners gyms hair salons hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

In business or in life don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.