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Businesses are the anchors for a civilization. The trading of goods and services in exchange of something of equal value dates to thousands of years. Commerce, then, is not a new industry, and businesses have informed our values since time immemorial. Today, a business shapes the identity of a nation and is fundamental to the survival of any economy. A business can range from a small store in a town to mammoth global corporations. Apart from providing labor, a business also helps a country build itself. Across the world, many third-world countries have started moving up the ladder with the help of corporations. The complex society we live in today needs booming businesses all over the place to survived. If you are looking for some inspiration about setting up your own business or simply want to read successful stories, you are in the right place. Scroll through these quotes and let them have a positive impact on your life.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
Clara Barton

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
Lewis Carroll

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
Hermann Hesse

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.

Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
Roseanne Barr

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.

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

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
Martha Graham

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 F. Kennedy

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it
John Lennon

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.
Hillary Clinton

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.
Muhammad Ali

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
Michelle Obama

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.

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

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.
Hillary Clinton

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
Elton John

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Salman Rushdie

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
Joseph Stalin

You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.

I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.
Hillary Clinton

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.
Julianne Moore

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
William S. Burroughs

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
Robert A. Heinlein

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
David Byrne

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'
Jerry Lewis

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.
Betty Friedan

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.
Stevie Nicks