Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Lincoln
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. Sam Walton
The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell. Confucius
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Khalil Gibran
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Niccolo Machiavelli
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison
All lasting business is built on friendship. Alfred A. Montapert
I want to put a ding in the universe. Steve Jobs
A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it. William Feather
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Isaac Rubin
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
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. Thomas A. Edison
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw
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
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. Stephen Covey
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford
An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s. Will Rogers
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Henry Ward Beecher
It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. Will Rogers
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. Walt Disney
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller
Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money. Peter Drucker
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. Robert H. Schuller
If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable. Will Rogers
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. Laurence J. Peter
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Peter Drucker
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
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. Mitt Romney
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
Our favorite holding period is forever. Warren Buffett
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
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. Robert Orben
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
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later. Harold S. Geneen
An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. Peter Drucker
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. W. Clement Stone
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
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. David Ogilvy
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. John Greenleaf Whittier
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. Herbert Hoover
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves. Herbert Hoover
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. Gary Ryan Blair
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. W. Edwards Deming
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. Ambrose Bierce
It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. Isaac Asimov
Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible. Andy Warhol
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
Business is a combination of war and sport. Andre Maurois
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. Fred Allen
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing. William Wordsworth
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss. Lee Iacocca
When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. Robert Kiyosaki
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. Max de Pree
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
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures. Tom Peters
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
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. B. C. Forbes
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority. William Arthur Ward
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Charles Kettering
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Jack Welch
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, ‘Don’t you want to have a normal job and a normal family?’ I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. Jennifer Aniston
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. Walter Scott
Ask five economists and you’ll get five different answers – six if one went to Harvard. Edgar R. Fiedler
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. Arnold H. Glasow
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. Scott Adams
A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. Howard Aiken
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Thomas J. Watson
I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. Lord Acton
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw
Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. Andre Maurois
Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. Thomas J. Watson
Carpe per diem – seize the check. Robin Williams
I buy when other people are selling. J. Paul Getty
A group or an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his. Bobby Darin
My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. Ted Turner
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own. Michael Korda
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Walter Lippmann
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon
When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder. James H. Boren
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. Jeff Bezos
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. Scott Adams
If you aren’t playing well, the game isn’t as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. Thomas J. Watson
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. John Cleese
The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. Rose Kennedy
The consumer isn’t a moron she is your wife. David Ogilvy
I’ve never felt like I was in the cookie business. I’ve always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. Debbi Fields
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. Blaine Lee
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love. Tiger Woods
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. Stanislaw Lem
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. Rupert Murdoch
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Evan Esar
I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations. Ralph Nader
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippmann
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. Don Marquis
Don’t simply retire from something have something to retire to. Harry Emerson Fosdick
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman – like my father, or like me? Glenn Beck
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers. Ross Perot
One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. A. C. Benson
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. Tom Allen
Word of mouth is the best medium of all. William Bernbach
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. Blaine Lee
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. Tacitus
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Robert Browning
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. Jane Fonda
So little done, so much to do. Cecil Rhodes
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. Benjamin Jowett
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. Paul Tournier
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. Norman Cousins
Real riches are the riches possessed inside. B. C. Forbes
Business is in itself a power. Garet Garrett
It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. Dale Dauten
You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. Steve Ross
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. Tim Berners-Lee
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. Edward Appleton
Every few seconds it changes – up an eighth, down an eighth – it’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. Ted Turner
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. Alvin Toffler
Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. Stanislaw Lem
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. Andre Malraux
People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’ Sinclair Lewis
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. Edgar R. Fiedler
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. Meg Whitman
What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’ Steve Ballmer
We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference. Steve Ballmer
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don’t lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won’t stand up either. Evan Esar
Business can be a source of progressive change. Jerry Greenfield
Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network. Mitchell Kapor
If you have to forecast, forecast often. Edgar R. Fiedler
Not for nothing is their motto TGIF – ‘Thank God It’s Friday.’ They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. Richard Nelson Bolles
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. Igor Sikorsky
What’s the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. Paul A. Volcker
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. Scott McNealy
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. Jack Anderson
The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. Blaine Lee
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo da Vinci
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. Ayn Rand
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Abraham Lincoln
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Winston Churchill
It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. Mark Twain
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. Helen Keller
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan
A man should never neglect his family for business. Walt Disney
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. Mitch Hedberg
It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. Barack Obama
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. Ronald Reagan
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. Benjamin Franklin
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. Hunter S. Thompson
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. Benjamin Franklin
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. Aristotle
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! Marilyn Monroe
Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world. Marilyn Monroe
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. Grenville Kleiser
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns. Plato
Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business. Eminem
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. John Hancock
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn’t make you want to jump into that business. Charlie Sheen
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. Henry David Thoreau
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. Steve Jobs
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. Robert Frost
There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. Tupac Shakur
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. Bill Gates
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. George Bernard Shaw
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. Elbert Hubbard
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Zig Ziglar
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. Ron Paul
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. Henry Ford
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. Tupac Shakur
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. Bill Cosby
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. George Washington
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. Noam Chomsky
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Elbert Hubbard
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. Steve Jobs
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. Phyllis Diller
If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Walt Disney
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. Steve Jobs
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. Henry Ford
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. Warren Buffett
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren. Mitt Romney
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. Barack Obama
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? Will Rogers
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. Erma Bombeck
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone. Bill Gates
I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that’s where I thrive. Will Smith
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Robert Louis Stevenson
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. Will Rogers
Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn’t work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. Mitt Romney
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. Alexander Pope
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman
In almost every profession – whether it’s law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business – people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it. Hillary Clinton
It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business. Malcolm Forbes
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we’re a show business family and we all work. Michael Jackson
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. Henry Ford
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Richard Branson
Business is the salt of life. Voltaire
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50. Bill Gates
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment. Walt Disney
You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don’t like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it’s a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don’t like eggs. Mitt Romney
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. Richard Branson
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. Warren Buffett
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business. Warren Buffett
In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Dale Carnegie
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson
Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere. Paul Ryan
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. Mitt Romney
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. Warren Buffett
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. Dale Carnegie
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don’t want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn’t improve what I’m trying to do. I figure, once I’ve done my job, it’s none of my business. Johnny Depp
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. Aristotle Onassis
If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. Warren Buffett
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America’s engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. Mitt Romney
I know what it’s like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. Mitt Romney
Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business. Mitt Romney
When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs. Mitt Romney
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Mitt Romney
“Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.;Thomas Paine;business
7542;It’s a business you go into because your an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.;Katharine Hepburn;business
7543;I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.;Hillary Clinton;business
7544;The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.;Andrew Jackson;business
7545;I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.;Charlie Chaplin;business
7546;I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.;Lucille Ball;business
7547;In business for yourself, not by yourself.;William James;business
7548;The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.;William James;business
7549;I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.;Donald Trump;business
7550;Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.;William S. Burroughs;business
7551;Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.;Thomas Carlyle;business
7552;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;business
7553;Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.;Al Lopez;business
7554;We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.;Hubert H. Humphrey;business
7555;I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.;Richard Bach;business
7556;War is the business of barbarians.;Napoleon Bonaparte;business
7557;I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.;Margaret Thatcher;business
7558;My business is to prevent the future.;Ray Bradbury;business
7559;Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.;Carroll O’Connor;business
7560;I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.;Carroll O’Connor;business
7561;One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.;Carroll O’Connor;business
7562;Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.;Carroll O’Connor;business
7563;I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.;Billy Graham;business
7564;The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.;Pablo Picasso;business
7565;I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.;H. P. Lovecraft;business
7566;Now I know that Wal-Mart’s policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.;Hillary Clinton;business
7567;Business today consists in persuading crowds.;T. S. Eliot;business
7568;I don’t think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.;Hillary Clinton;business
7569;Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.;Samuel Johnson;business
7570;The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.” Orison Swett Marden
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. T. S. Eliot
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. Blaise Pascal
The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. F. Scott Fitzgerald
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. Calvin Coolidge
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. Calvin Coolidge
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. Edmund Burke
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Benjamin Disraeli
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government’s business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me. Jesse Ventura
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf
So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn’t making – let’s call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. Donald Trump
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business. Francis Bacon
Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority. Jim Carrey
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it’s virtually impossible. It’s very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms. Donald Trump
When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure. Robert Kiyosaki
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we’ll have them tomorrow. Kathy Ireland
I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it’s somebody else’s secretary, fine. Barry Goldwater
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. Charles Dickens
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. Charles Dickens
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. Andy Rooney
To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. Richard Branson
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling. Barry Goldwater
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves – who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. Stephen Covey
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson
No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won. Jim Valvano
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation. Milan Kundera
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. Honore de Balzac
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. Honore de Balzac
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. Honore de Balzac
Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. Ayrton Senna
The business of America is business. Calvin Coolidge
For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize. Tiger Woods
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. William Butler Yeats
Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think ‘we’re all in this together’ is a better philosophy than ‘you’re on your own.’ William J. Clinton
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. Bernard Meltzer
I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself. Jim Carrey
My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. Anthony Hopkins
It’s like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I’m so not that. I never was that I’ll never be that. That is part of the business that I don’t like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don’t know. But that’s fine. Chloe Sevigny
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. John Ruskin
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. David Herbert Lawrence
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with. Matthew Henry
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God’s business. Michael J. Fox
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step – it is an old business procedure. Fran Lebowitz
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. Harvey S. Firestone
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. Mark Zuckerberg
If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business. Alexander Pope
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. Amos Bronson Alcott
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. Alexis de Tocqueville
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. Horace
Let us permit nature to have her w