There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. --Martha Graham (in Benjamin Zander's Shining Eyes)

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. --The Dalai Lama (in Stopping Bullets with Jobs)

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy. --Thomas Merton (in Facing Homelessness)

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. --Henry Ford (in Designing Companies that Are Loved)

I'm a speck, an atom. Everything physical is an illusion, but it's there to guide us or test us or deter us. Our job is to navigate through this world while understanding the only thing that matters is the state of our soul, and that's very hard because I'm in the entertainment business, which is completely based on illusion and physical things. Any success I have is a manifestation of God. It's my ego that wants to claim ownership. It's hubris, arrogance and greed. --Madonna (in Untitled)

It's important to truly understand your corporate values, to communicate them clearly to all your employees, and to live them. I personally believe that community service contributes to business success in many ways. --James Quigley, CEO of Deloitte (in Corporate Volunteers)

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. --Fr. Alfred D'Souza (in Obstacles of Life)

Do good and do well. It's called a double bottom line. Our social mission is as important as our business mission. Our people are as important as the dollars we make. --Julius Walls (in Double Bottom Line)

A sustainable business generates a reasonable profit while continually reducing negative externalities like pollution, sub-standard wages, and traffic congestion, and increasing positive externalities such as healthy workers, community involvement, and ecological restoration. --Andrew Grigsby (in The Soup Peddler)

I always make the business case for sustainability. It’s so compelling. Our costs are down, not up. Our products are the best they have ever been. Our people are motivated by a shared higher purpose -- esprit de corps to die for. And the goodwill in the marketplace -- it’s just been astonishing. --Ray Anderson (in Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet)

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. --Henri Frederic Amiel (in The Year Without Toilet Paper)

Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed to do and business takes care of itself. --James Autry (in Leprosy And A Mother's Love)

The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now. --Kofi Annan (in Brazil Takes the Lead)

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." --Alfred D. Souza (in 365 Days of Happiness)

There can be little doubt that a certain amount of corporate philanthropy is simply good business and works for the long-term benefit of the investors. --John Mackey (in Hire Just One)

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. --Gwendolyn Brooks (in Two Children Teach the World About Love)

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. --Gwendolyn Brooks (in Unpacking a Gift from 21 Years Ago)

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. --Gwendolyn Brooks (in Shelagh Was Here: An Ordinary, Magical Life)

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. --Louisa May Alcott (in Unlocking Multiple Forms of Wealth)

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself. --Marcus Aurelius (in Coming in Peace, 2017)

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 )