If one gets on with the job that lies to hand, the ultimate purpose of the job fades into insignificance.
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.
The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.
My business is too hard, for my business is arousing human sympathy.[Mein Geschäft ist zu schwierig, denn mein Geschäft ist es, das menschliche Mitleid zu erwecken.]
Life is a business.[La vie est une affaire.]
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.[Das Leben ein Geschäft, das nicht die Kosten deckt.]
Let us leave hearts out of the question. Business is business, and business is not carried on with sentimentality like romances.[Laissons le cœur. Les affaires se font comme des affaires, et non comme des romans, avec de la sensiblerie.]
Let every man mind his own business.[translation by John Willis Clark]Let everyone hold his tongue.[translation by John Ormsby][Y todo el mundo calle.]
