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- What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
- Aldus Manutius (1449 - 1515), Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
- The chief business of the American people is business.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
- There's no business like show business.
- Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), Song title
- Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
- The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
- Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000), CBC Archives
- Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
- William A. Smith, 1908
- A dinner lubricates business.
- Lord William Stowell
- It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.
- Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
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