Business Quotes
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five - Year projections.Malcom Forbes
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.William Faulkne
Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.Claude M. Bristol
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?Sidney Madwed
If I love you, what business is it of yours.Johann von Goethe
Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.Stewart B. Johnson
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.Benjamin Franklin
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.Arab Prove
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - - I mean the wages of decent living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.Julius Rosenwald
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.Paul Graham, September 2004
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.B. C. Forbes
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.Walter Lippman
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty.Francis Bacon
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Warren Buffett
What other people think about me is not my business.Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot - Binding.Dean Gooderham Acheson
Do what you love and the business will follow.Michel Fortin
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.Robert Louis Stevenson
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.Peter Drucke
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.Sigmund Freud
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.David M. Ogilvy
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
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
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.Epictetus
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
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
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
