“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
Alex Salmond: The coup against Corbyn was planned to stop him calling for Blair’s head after Chilcot http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/14594947.The_coup_against_Corbyn_was_planned_to_stop_him_calling_for_Blair___s_head_after_Chilcot/ (4 July 2016)
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
“To win that battle, to answer that call -- this remains our great unfinished business.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)
Context: The test was not, and never has been, whether the doors of opportunity are cracked a bit wider for a few. It was whether our economic system provides a fair shot for the many -- for the black custodian and the white steelworker, the immigrant dishwasher and the Native American veteran. To win that battle, to answer that call -- this remains our great unfinished business.
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Interviewed by the Mirror before the EU referendum result http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-wants-second-referendum-7985017 (16 May 2016) <br class="br">2016
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Vogue interview (November 21, 2009) http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-comeback-clinton-rival-cabinet/story?id=9145125&page=2 <br class="br">Secretary of State (2009–2013)
Caroline Myss (1952) author from the United States
Distractions, Distractions, by Caroline Myss, August 19, 2010 http://www.healyourlife.com/author-caroline-myss/2010/08/lifeshelp/success-and-abundance/distractions-distractions&utm_id=HYLFB
“The business of business is business.”
Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966) American businessman
Widely attributed to Milton Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
“The business of business is business.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Widely attributed to Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed