William Shakespeare Quotes About Business

• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.35

• The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Marketing, Treasure

• We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Business, Military

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

• Though inclination be as sharp as will,
  My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
  And, like a man to double business bound,
  I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
  And both neglect.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Business, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine (2004). “Hamlet”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

• Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Memorable, Men

  William Shakespeare (1720). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. I.”, p.28

• To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Business, Delight

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 4, l. 20

• Good counselors lack no clients.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Clients, Counselor

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.64, BookCaps Study Guides

• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Debt, Disease

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]

• O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Men, Might

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. 123

• In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Learning, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1796*). “The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems”, p.142

• Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
  Ang'ring itself and others.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Play, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

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