Top 100 No Business Quotes
#1. Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
Reza Aslan
#3. Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there's still a thing called opportunity, and that's what people need to pursue.
Mike Rowe
#4. A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.
David Mitchell
#5. No business can be a great success without a great purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#6. People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.
Edward Forbes
#7. No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
Jeff Bezos
#8. The world is full of people who remain in relationships that they realize they have no business in. Yet, they stay, hoping and praying for change, believing that the other person will eventually appreciate them and recognize their value.
Zane
#9. I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
John D. Rockefeller
#10. I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.
Hillary Clinton
#11. And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
Harvey Pekar
#12. I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
Johnnie Ray
#13. Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Augustine Birrell
#14. And concerning anything in this society involved in helping Negroes, the federal government shows an inability to function. But it can function in South Vietnam, in the Congo, in Berlin, and in other places where it has no business. But it can't function in Mississippi.
Malcolm X
#15. Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot - it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.
Catherynne M Valente
#16. No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.
Harvey Spencer Lewis
#17. What I say is, if a witch can't look after herself, she's got no business calling herself a witch.
Terry Pratchett
#18. America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
Todd Akin
#19. A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.
Samuel Johnson
#20. I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.
Brendan Gleeson
#21. You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."
Guy Kawasaki
#22. Christians have no business playing around with ideas of the devil as a fun-loving, beer-swigging guy who just wants you to have a good time.
Pedro Okoro
#23. I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.
Theodore Roosevelt
#24. It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.
Akon
#25. Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.
Harriet Hosmer
#26. I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.
Marcus Aurelius
#27. A woman really had no business looking that good in a man's hat
Amy Andrews
#28. Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.
Stephen Crane
#30. Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except Do you have enough room in the toes?
Florence King
#31. [W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
Ayelet Waldman
#32. The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it.
Alden Garrat Warrior Heart
Dee Farrell
#33. My notebook was filled with images of things a lady had no business being fascinated by, yet I couldn't control my curiosity.
Kerri Maniscalco
#34. Up to this time, Mr Pancks had transacted little or no business at his quarters in Pentonville, except in the sleeping line; but now that he had become a fortune-teller,
Charles Dickens
#35. I pressed my lips together, trying to find a safe place to focus my attention. He filled the entire shower stall, his skin clean and wet, every part of him chiseled. His gym shorts clung to a package I had no business noticing.
Lisa Kessler
#36. There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
Michael Bloomberg
#37. A WORD TO THE WISE
Let the world pass in its time-ridden race;
never get caught in its snare.
Remember, the only acceptable case
for being in any particular place
is having no business there.
Piet Hein
#38. The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.
Arne Glimcher
#39. I had no business trying to see you leave, see death arrive, I owe you an apology, an elegy, I owe you the drift of memory, the praise of everything, of saying it was the best decision of my life, to hold you full, hold you empty, & live as the only bond between the two.
Bob Hicok
#40. I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.
John Cale
#41. I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours.
Jane Austen
#43. Most of them had no business there other than relief from boredom.
Lou Bradshaw
#44. In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.
Curtis Jackson
#46. Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
Horace
#47. I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.
Don King
#48. Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility.
Liz Reinhardt
#49. The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
Rudolf Bing
#50. Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
Samuel Goldwyn
#51. Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind
Theodore Roosevelt
#52. I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.
Henry Zebrowski
#53. If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."
David Lloyd-Jones
#55. Trust is everything. If I didn't have trust, there would be no downloads, no show, and no business.
Stefan Molyneux
#56. There's no business that's too small for government to torture
John Stossel
#57. Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
#58. Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs
#59. Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.
Glen Cook
#60. Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.
Plato
#61. Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.
Rush Limbaugh
#62. I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#63. The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
Margaret Deland
#64. I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.
Dan Bejar
#65. A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.
Catherine Marshall
#66. Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado.
A tornado he had no business chasing.
Lisa Kessler
#67. I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
Henry Martyn
#68. Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.
Swami Vivekananda
#69. Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's ... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#70. I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
Jesse Ventura
#71. A warlord who neglected his warriors had no business calling himself a warlord. No matter his trial, no matter his private pains, a warlord always place his warhost first.
Karen Miller
#72. Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.
Oswald Chambers
#73. The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.
Paul Westerberg
#74. A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
Mark Twain
#76. No business
which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its
workers has any right to continue in this country ... By living wages, I
mean more than the bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a decent
living.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#77. There's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.
Inez Haynes Irwin
#78. We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just
J.R.R. Tolkien
#79. Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
Henry Mintzberg
#81. We'll I'd like to see the woman that wouldn't defend her kin any way possible, and see what she's made of. Anyone who hasn't got some backbone has no business trying to live in the Territories.
Nancy E. Turner
#82. Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
Jerome K. Jerome
#83. A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
Paul Craig Roberts
#84. Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
Thomas Jefferson
#85. Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.
Mal Peet
#86. We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.
Craig Newmark
#87. I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#88. The base paths belonged to me, the runner. The rules gave me the right. I always went into a bag full speed, feet first. I had sharp spikes on my shoes. If the baseman stood where he had no business to be and got hurt, that was his fault.
Ty Cobb
#89. In the digital economy, if you can't be trusted you have no business doing business.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#90. But my heart is an old house
(the kind my mother
grew up in)
hell to heat and cool
and faulty in the wiring
and though it's nice to look at
I have no business
inviting lovers in.
Clementine Von Radics
#91. I don't need to drive. I have no business driving. I would never be able to find my keys.
Marilyn Manson
#92. It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.
Miles Anthony Smith
#93. Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Lord Chesterfield
#94. If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall
#95. No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.
Peter Drucker
#96. Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it's a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all choices are brewed.
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.
Robert Stone
#98. You got no business coming in here and playing the asshole.'
'I am an asshole, Sully. We haven't even scraped the surface yet.
Daniel Polansky
#99. If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.
Ronnie Van Zant
#100. That was when I came to understand that freaks of nature and ordinary people had no business being together.
Alice Hoffman
