Business Quotations

Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you...

Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes another door opens; but we...

Alexis de Tocqueville

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities...

Alfred A. Montapert

All lasting business is built on...

Alvin Toffler

To think that the new economy is over is...

Al Boliska

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments...

Ambrose Bierce

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual...

Ambrose Bierce

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor...

Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes...

Andrew Carnegie

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your...

Andre Malraux

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing...

Andre Maurois

Business is a combination of war and...

Andy Warhol

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to...

Aristotle Onassis

The secret of business is to know something that...

Arthur C. Clarke

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his...

A. C. Benson

One's mind has a way of making itself up...

Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do...

Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing is certain but death and...

B. C. Forbes

If you don't drive your business, you will be...

B. C. Forbes

Real riches are the riches possessed...

Cecil Rhodes

So little done, so much to...

Charles Kettering

High achievement always takes place in the framework of...

Charles Schwab

The way to get things done is to stimulate...

Coco Chanel

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is...

Colin Powell

Don't let your ego get too close to your...

Colin Powell

Perpetual optimism is a force...

Colin Powell

There are no secrets to success. It is the...

Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior...

Dennis Prager

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements,...

Don Marquis

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always...

Douglas Wood

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in...

Edgar R. Fiedler

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers...

Edgar R. Fiedler

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns...

Edgar R. Fiedler

If you have to forecast, forecast...

Edgar R. Fiedler

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like...

Edward Appleton

I rate enthusiasm even above professional...

Edward Gibbon

Our work is the presentation of our...

Evan Esar

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures...

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts...

Regard it as just as desirable to build a...

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any...

Do more than is required. What is the distance...

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge...

If all the economists were laid end to end,...

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire...

A business that makes nothing but money is a...

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you...

The man who will use his skill and constructive...

Henry R. Luce

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual...

Every young man would do well to remember that...

Herbert Hoover

About the time we can make the ends meet,...

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or...

Howard Aiken

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your...

Igor Sikorsky

The work of the individual still remains the spark...

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on...

Jack Anderson

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives...

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when...

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected...

I was told to avoid the business all together...

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years,...

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman....

John Greenleaf Whittier

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage...

Josh Billings

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one...

J. Paul Getty

I buy when other people are...

J. Paul Getty

If you can count your money, you don't have...

J. Paul Getty

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem....

J. Paul Getty

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its...

Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot...

Laurence J. Peter

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow...

Les Brown

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll...

Lord Acton

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist....

Lord Acton

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If one does not know to which port one...

Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to...

Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the...

Meg Whitman

Look at growth, look at how much time people...

Michael Korda

The fastest way to succeed is to look as...

Mitchell Kapor

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy...

Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person...

Napoleon Hill

The majority of men meet with failure because of...

Nathaniel Parker Willis

If there is anything that keeps the mind open...

Niccolo Machiavelli

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one...

Norman Cousins

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner...

Patricia Velasquez

There was a time when I used to live...

Paul A. Volcker

What's the subject of life - to get rich?...

Paul Parker

But peel that hype away and I think that...

Peter Drucker

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's...

Peter Drucker

There is an enormous number of managers who have...

Peter Drucker

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is...

Ralph Nader

I don't think meals have any business being deductible....

Richard Nelson Bolles

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank...

Robert Burton

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage,...

Robert Byrne

There are two kinds of people, those who finish...

Robert Frost

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may...

Robert Orben

Every day I get up and look through the...

Robin Williams

Carpe per diem - seize the...

Roger Ebert

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about...

Rupert Murdoch

The buck stops with the guy who signs the...

Saul Bellow

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions...

Scott Adams

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing...

Scott Adams

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue...

Scott McNealy

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin...

Shane Warne

The first thing is to be patient, which is...

Sinclair Lewis

People will buy anything that is 'one to a...

Sonny Perdue

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand...

Stanislaw Lem

Cannibals prefer those who have no...

Stanislaw Lem

Do not trust people. They are capable of...

Stephen Covey

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many...

Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management...

Steve Ballmer

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share....

Steve Ballmer

What we've gone through in the last several years...

Steve Jobs

I want to put a ding in the...

Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is...

Steve Ross

You can't operate a company by fear, because the...

Tacitus

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a...

Ted Turner

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth,...

Ted Turner

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're...

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but...

Theodore White

If you make a living, if you earn your...

Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying...

Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it...

Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let...

Thomas Carlyle

The work an unknown good man has done is...

Thomas J. Watson

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as...

Thomas J. Watson

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead...

Thomas J. Watson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success...

Tiger Woods

I get to play golf for a living. What...

Tim Berners-Lee

Anyone who has lost track of time when using...

Tim Berners-Lee

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly...

Tom Brokaw

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot...

Tom Brokaw

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree....

Tom Peters

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design,...

Walter Lippmann

The genius of a good leader is to leave...

Walter Scott

Success or failure in business is caused more by...

Warren Buffett

Our favourite holding period is...

William A. Ward

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line...

William Feather

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but...

William Penn

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for...

William Wordsworth

In modern business it is not the crook who...

Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be as good...

Will Rogers

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some...

Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough,...

Will Rogers

It's not what you pay a man, but what...

Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need...

W. Clement Stone

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the...

W. Edwards Deming

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that...