Business
- John Barbour (1849–1918) Clothier, inventor and manufacturer of the Barbour jacket
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“One of the necessary qualifications of an efficient business man in these days of industrial literature seems to be the ability to write, in clear and idiomatic English, a 1,000-word story on how efficient he is and how he got that way.... It seems that the entire business world were devoting its working hours to the creation of a school of introspective literature.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“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.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“In leaving the people’s business in their hands, we can not be wrong.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)