An extraordinary business starts with extraordinary people. Extraordinary people start with purpose. --Jesper Lowgren (in OptOutside: REI's Audacious Experiment in Integrity)

Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue. --Karl-Henrik Robert (in Turning Waste Streams Into Value Streams)

So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government. --Leila Janah (in Growing Your Own Garden: Emotional Resilience for Entrepreneurs)

We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business. --Chip Conley (in What Baby Boomers & Millennials Can Teach Each Other)

Look back along the endless corridors of time and you will see that four things have built civilization: the spirit of religion, the spirit of creative art, the spirit of research and the spirit of business enterprise. --Neil Carothers (in Phil Chan on Art, Civilization & Empathy)

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. --Gwendolyn Brooks (in Together Apart: Letters from Isolation)

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. --Gwendolyn Brooks (in Hood Feminism: A Call For Solidarity)

For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. --T.S. Eliot (in Giving Your Heart Over to Real Change )