Business is a sport, once you learn that, you stop taking things personal.

the analogies of businesses to sports teams are wrong on so many levels. sports teams are capped. businesses are uncapped.
businesses are more like the NBA than an individual basketball team.

"Baseball is too good a business to be a mere sport and too much of a sport to be a mere business". (Spanish: "El beisbol es demasiado negocio para ser un simple deporte y demasiado deporte para ser un simple negocio".) Milenio Newspaper (October 29, 2021)

I like business because it is competitive. Business keeps books. The books are the score cards. Profit is the measure of accomplishment, not the ideal measure, but the most practical that can be devised. I like business because it compels earnestness. Amateurs and dilettantes are shoved out. Once in you must fight for survival or be carried to the sidelines. I like business because it requires courage. Cowards do not get to first base. I like business because It demands faith. Faith in human nature, faith in one's self, faith in one's customers, faith in one's employees. I like business because it is the essence of life. Dreams are good, poetical fancies are good, but bread must be baked today, trains must move today, bills must be collected today, payrolls met today. Business feeds, clothes and houses man. I like business because it rewards deeds and not words. I like business because it does not neglect today's task while it is thinking about tomorrow. I like business because it undertakes to please, not to reform. I like business because it is orderly. I like business because it is bold in enterprise. I like business because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding the hypocrisy and sentimentality of the unselfish attitude. I like business because it is promptly penalized for its mistakes, shiftlessness and inefficiency. I like business because its philosophy works. I like business because each day is a fresh, adventure.

Business is a good game—lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

Business is the "art" of making money by selling things or services people want for more than their cost.

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

But once we get on the track, it's business. It's my career; this is what I do, what I love. And it's my job.

Business is the highest evolution of consciousness, responsibility, and morality. No other living organism is even remotely able to function on a business level. The essences of business are honesty, effort, responsibility, integration, abstraction, conceptualization, objectivity, long-range planning, discipline, thought, control. Business creates essentially every major human value, ranging from the development of consciousness, language, mathematics, the arts, up to the electronic and biogenic revolutions.

Business? Why, it's very simple: business is other people's money.

Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."

business is like chess. Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca put it well: to succeed, “you must study the endgame before everything else.” 6

Business is the activity you engage in to monetize your specific knowledge.

It is not something to be studied and pursued in and of itself.