Life Quotes

Negotiating isn't about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It's not an 'either/or situation.' It's about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I've had to learn this hard lesson.

~ John Rampton

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

~ B. C. Forbes

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

~ Lakshmi Mittal

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

~ Chester A. Arthur

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

~ Harry Houdini

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

~ John Cage

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

~ Josie Maran

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

~ Fran Tarkenton

For me, it's about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something's going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

~ Ric Flair

Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has been part of my life since ever I was born. It has advantages and disadvantages. It's like an older style of living where everyone works in the family business.

~ Margherita Missoni

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

~ Bernard Meltzer

My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.

~ William Clay Ford

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

~ George William Russell

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

~ Barbara Corcoran

People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

~ Lindsay Fox

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

~ E. Joseph Cossman

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

~ Mark Udall

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

~ Peter Cooper

It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to climb mountains. That can also apply to a lot of other challenges in life, whether it's running for office, starting a family, going to grad school or taking all of your cash and assets and starting a business.

~ Mark Udall

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

~ Bruce Barton

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

~ Tina Yothers

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

~ Ann Bancroft

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

~ Barbara Corcoran

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

~ Nastia Liukin

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

~ Carl Hiaasen

As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.

~ Tim Scott

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

~ Paul Ryan

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

~ Robert Browning

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

~ Terry Mcauliffe

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

~ Christine Lagarde

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

~ Christie Hefner

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

~ Grace Paley

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

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

~ James F. Cooper

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

~ Archibald Macleish

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 them it's grand and great.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

~ Paul A. Volcker