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The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
Lewis H. Lapham
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.




Edward R. Murrow
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks — that's show business.
John Cage
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
Paul Newman | Business Quotes
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
Ted Malloch
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
Michael Parenti
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.
Tom Clancy
I'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.
John Steinbeck
The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business.
George Moore | Business Quotes
Self is man's main business; all outside of self is uncertain, all comes from self, all returns to self.




Ted Malloch
Business is the real test of the moral life.
Paul Tsongas
You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.
Tom DeMarco
While the machines have changes enormously, the business of software development has been rather static.
D. H. Lawrence
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
Ted Malloch | Business Quotes
The business virtue par excellence is honesty—without it markets can’t long survive.
Leo Burnett
I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me.
Steve Maraboli
We will get true and lasting change as soon as we make helping people a way of life instead of a business.
John Lancaster Spalding
When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.


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