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Topic of the Week: Business

Each week we pick one topic from the 300 largest on the site and pull together a short reading list for it. The pick changes every Monday and is the same for everyone, so you can share this page and others will see the same set. This is week 40 of 2026, starting 28 September 2026.

This week it is Business, which has 39,016 quotes here. Below are twelve of them, each from a different author and short enough to read in a few seconds. The full topic page has the rest.

Today's pick

Twelve Business quotes

  1. To me, you get into this business to make money and to make a name for yourself. And the fact that you're on the indies for 15 years is not a badge of honor.

    — John Layfield

  2. Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.

    — Steve Miller

  3. What really makes your business is your workers - their commitment, their knowledge, how you train them, how you treat them. They have to make the entity a winning entity.

    — Lidia Bastianich

  4. If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

    — Brent Spiner

  5. At the end of my life, I want to say that I made the world a better place because I raised good children, loved my wife, and empowered entrepreneurs. If I do these things, then I can rest knowing that I made the world a better place.

    — Guy Kawasaki

  6. We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

    — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  7. Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

    — Seth Godin

  8. If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

    — Thomas Sowell

  9. The company is called Drop Dead, it makes me a lot a money.

    — Oliver Sykes

  10. Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

    — Winston Churchill

  11. I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

    — Larry Page

  12. We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

    — Warren Buffett

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