Top 100 Life Is Not Business Quotes
#1. Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B.C. Forbes
#2. Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.
Alexander Kjerulf
#3. Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?
Mikhail Prokhorov
#4. We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
R.C. Sproul
#5. Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#6. Value added is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.
Peter Drucker
#7. Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
Betty Friedan
#8. The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it's a hobby I enjoy.
El DeBarge
#9. I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.
Gabrielle Zevin
#10. Music is life, and life is not a business.
Iggy Pop
#11. Profit is to business what breathing is to humans. Both are essential to survival, but just as breathing is not the purpose of life, so profit is not the purpose of business.
Margaret Benefiel
#12. The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,
chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.
Marianne Williamson
#14. Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
William Bernbach
#15. Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.
Owen Feltham
#16. What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.
W.G. Sebald
#17. Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
Aristotle.
#18. Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
#19. You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering is the only way to find themselves.
Vishwas Mudagal
#20. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox
#21. Shifting your focus from getting to giving is not only a nice way to live life and conduct business, but a very profitable way as well.
Bob Burg
#22. Thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.
Hetty Green
#23. The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.
Costa-Gavras
#24. Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
Anita Brookner
#25. I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
Randy Weber
#26. The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
Amos Oz
#27. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."
Bill Gates
#28. Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just about climbing and business. It is about two people in love who switch leads in life's hard climb. A great read - inside or outside a tent!
Jim Whittaker
#29. Life is my business; business is not my life.
Don Dunning
#30. I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.
Richard Branson
#31. I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.
Anwar Ibrahim
#32. There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.
George Arthur French
#33. If one is not prepared to fail, there is no way to achieve success in
business and life.
Eraldo Banovac
#34. Most of social media is simply a popularity contest. Well, I'm not here for the competition; I have important business and words of depth to change the course. So, while you follow the path of the ignorant, the rest of us will celebrate truth and the higher path.
Dara Reidyr
#35. A plan that is not written is just an idea.
Dwain Siady
#36. Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#37. Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
Reid Hoffman
#39. Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.
Khem Veasna
#40. Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
Victor J. Stenger
#42. Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#43. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
John C. Maxwell
#44. While it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.
Iris Origo
#45. Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
Lionel Richie
#46. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Donny Deutsch
#47. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Gus Grissom
#48. If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
Donna Mills
#49. I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
Eugene H. Peterson
#51. You know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With
L.M. Montgomery
#52. Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
#53. This should be one of the basic attitudes - not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered.
Osho
#54. I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.
Eli Wallach
#55. Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
Sissy Spacek
#56. Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.
Hugh Nibley
#58. If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.
Richard Kearney
#59. War is not just the business of death, it is the antitheses of life.
Joss Whedon
#60. Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#61. But the meaning of life is not ... explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.
Carl Jung
#62. In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
Carl Icahn
#63. In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness
Prentice Mulford
#64. I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.
Chris O'Donnell
#65. This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.
Michelle M. Pillow
#66. Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business because they all have God whether they use the word God or not. Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's business. Leave it to God.
Frederick Buechner
#67. Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.
Damon Dash
#68. Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.
Madeleine L'Engle
#71. The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
Saul Bellow
#72. Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.
Frederick Lenz
#73. For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country.
Mitt Romney
#75. Life is too short to be unhappy in business. If business were not a part of the joy of living, we might almost say that we have no right to live, because it is a pretty poor man who cannot get into the line for which he is fitted.
George L. Brown
#76. Give and take is business not bhakti
Radhe Maa
#77. When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.
Ram Shriram
#78. What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.
Robert Kennedy
#79. We men face temptations. Sometimes we stray. It is the way of the world." "It's not my way," Matthew said flatly. "I stand by my word, both in business and in my personal life. If or when I promise to be faithful to a woman, I would be. No matter what.
Lisa Kleypas
#80. Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
Stewart Udall
#81. As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly the opposite), sustainability is going to become one of the key characteristics with which places want to be associated.
Jonathon Porritt
#82. Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
A. E. Waite
#83. Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson
#84. Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil
the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
William George Jordan
#86. What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#87. It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. 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
#89. It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.
Meghan Wier
#90. Are you considering the other person you're calling when you call? Do you ask if it is a good time? If not, why not?
Loren Weisman
#91. So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Kevin O'Leary
#92. Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery - this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is a childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain, to say that this is something that should not have been.
Joseph Campbell
#93. But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#95. The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
Alex Campbell
#96. Whether you practice craftiness in your business, you will have profit and if you do not practice craftiness, then also you will have [same] profit. Craftiness creates a liability for the next life. So God had said not to do craftiness. There is no benefit in it and there is infinite suffering.
Dada Bhagwan
#97. The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
Iris Origo
#98. Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.
John D. Caputo
#99. Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
Oscar Wilde
#100. My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.
Jason Clarke
