Top 30 Business Over Friendship Quotes
#1. It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
Thomas More
#2. 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.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#3. Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.
Ogwo David Emenike
#4. Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that's one sided isn't one; it's a one way street headed in one direction ... nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.
T.F. Hodge
#5. Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
#6. It's about "Moments," not Milestones.
Ted Rubin
#7. I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
Hank Haney
#8. Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.
George Edward Moore
#9. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#10. During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty
#11. I don't buy or sell relationships, so let's talk business.
Sukant Ratnakar
#12. It was bad enough to see friendship and love in terms of politics. But seeing it in terms of business was even worse.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#13. The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Steven Pinker
#14. Oh no. Maybe I'd gotten too cocky. I was still relatively new to this friend business. Had I screwed up even asking? Should I have waited for her to offer up details?
Gwenda Bond
#15. Love makes everything business.
Auliq Ice
#17. But I couldn't comprehend this making friends business. My friends had always made me.
Colin MacLaughlin
#18. To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
Virginia Woolf
#19. I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Matt Groening
#20. If you are only focused on the Money... You risk completely overlooking the People.
Ted Rubin
#21. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship
John D. Rockefeller
#22. A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.
John D. Rockefeller
#23. I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?
Joseph Smith Jr.
#24. Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, "Would I want to be my friend???
Ted Rubin
#25. Friendship/Relationship... all is about the deal and business... give or take!?
Deyth Banger
#26. REAL trumps PERFECT... because REAL creates TRUST.
Ted Rubin
#27. Listen for "Moments" - and Make it Personal
Ted Rubin
#28. I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
Jane Smiley
#29. I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
Jill Scott
#30. In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.
Lord Chesterfield
