“Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor. ”

“In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him.”

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress is the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-endingly retrieving what is lost. A dogged, vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.”

“It's none of his business.""You are my business. I made you my business. I want you to be my business.”

“You know when I'm down to my socks it's time for businessThat's why they're called business socksIt's business, it's business time”

“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”