“Anything that affects your senses … is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business.”

“If you want the whole business world to come to you, you must establish yourself as an influencer in your field.”

Vladimer Botsvadze

“There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ”

Tom Watson (1874–1956) American businessman

“You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

“You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

“Surround yourself with people who are not in the business. And it’s do things that has nothing to do with your career. I’m really attracted to things that are genuine. The more time you spend with genuine people—the more it affects you and make you feel more normal in this crazy business.”

Odeya Rush (1997) Israeli actress

“Your career is your business, and you are its CEO.”

Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author

“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now