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Business Quotes




The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love.
That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it.
Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until
it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer,
or the baker that we expect our dinner,
but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

The superior man understands what is right;
the inferior man understands what will sell.
Confucius

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished
by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual,
it is best for the race,
because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow
why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future;
it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

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

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream,
the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work,
and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design,
manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

Don't let your ego get too close to your position,
so that if your position gets shot down,
your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes.
It is best to admit them quickly,
and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken,
it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded.
In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes

Disneyland is a work of love.
We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney