the business that was supposed to free him from the limitations of working for somebody else actually enslaves him. Suddenly the job he knew how to do so well becomes one job he knows how to do plus a dozen others he doesn’t know how to do at all.

"it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly."

Optimize processes, he urged, not people.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

most businesses are operated according to what the owner wants as opposed to what the business needs.

Everything in life happens FOR you, not TO you.

The great business of his life (he said) was to escape from himself; this disposition he considered as the disease of his mind, which nothing cured but company.

The point is: your business is not your life.

Aquel hombre no podía ser de su mujer, porque no era de sí mismo, dueño de sí, sino a la vez un enajenado y un poseído.

No man will make a great business who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit of doing it. That spirit is fatal, and the sure proof of a small mind.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding .when it is not ,he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding others people's business.
This expresses itself in gossip ,snooping and meddling ,and also in feverish interest in communal ,national and racial affairs .
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

this is your business — to act well the given part, but to choose it belongs to another.

He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.