Own Business Quotes

• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

  Eric Hoffer

  War, Men, People

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• 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.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Mistake, Choices

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• Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.

  Leon Brown

  Life, People, Mind Your Own Business

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• 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.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Running, Business

  FaceBook post by Arianna Huffington from Mar 22, 2014

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• 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

  Business, Mind, Atheism

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.16, Arcade Publishing

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

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Mind, Snooping

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Business

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Book, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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• Stay busy and take care of your own business.

  Eddy Arnold

  Care, Busy, Take Care

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• If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Inspirational, Wise, Christian

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• I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

  Howard Dean

  Christian, Mind Your Own Business, Pharisees

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• On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

  Charles Portis

  Men, Swings, Medicine

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Running, Husband, School

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• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, People, Scrooge

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.22, Penguin

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• These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.

  Mother Teresa

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Girl, Children, Emotional

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• Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Nasty, Judgmental, Failing

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.69, Anchor

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• I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Succeed, Admire

  "Martha Stewart wants you to make it". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Stupid, Flower, Night

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• 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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Race, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.343, Collector's Library

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