Quotes on Own Business

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man.

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

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.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made