Business Quotes:
The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’
Jeff Bezos
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Kennedy
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
Robert Kiyosaki
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
I buy when other people are selling
.J. Paul Getty
If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.
J. Paul Getty
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Mitt Romney
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
Carpe per diem – seize the check.
Robin Williams
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire
An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.
Will Rogers
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.
Will Rogers
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
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
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney