Business Quotes

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

» Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

» One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

» There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

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

» Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

» We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

» All lasting business is built on friendship.

» 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.

» The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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

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

» 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.

» Business is a combination of war and sport.

» 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.

» Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

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

» One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

» One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

» The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

» Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

» If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

» He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

» The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

» The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

» The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

» What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

» So little done, so much to do.

» For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

» It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

» Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

» Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

» High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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

» 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.

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

» Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

» 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.

» It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

» Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

» Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

» He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

» The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

» If you have to forecast, forecast often.

» I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

» Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

» Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

» 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.

» Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

» 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.

» If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

» In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

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

» I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

» Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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

» 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.

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

» Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

» About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

» 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.

» Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

» Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

» The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

» When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

» If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

» 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.

» 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.

» I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

» As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

» The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

» The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

» I buy when other people are selling.

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

» If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

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

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

» Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

» I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

» If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

» It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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

» The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

» 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.

» The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

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

» 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.

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

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

» Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

» 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.

» Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

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

» Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

» Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

» I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

» 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.

» 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.

» By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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

» If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

» 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.

» Carpe per diem - seize the check.

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

» Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

» Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

» Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

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

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

» Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

» Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

» 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.

» What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

» We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

» I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

» 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.

» Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

» My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

» 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.

» 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.

» If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

» Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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

» Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

» The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

» Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

» 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.

» Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

» I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.

» 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.

» Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

» It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

» You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

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

» The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

» 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.

» Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

» Our favourite holding period is forever.

» Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

» Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

» Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

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

» 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.

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

» It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

» If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

» Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

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

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