Business Quotes and sayings


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

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Robert Half

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes.
Daniel R. Scroggin

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It’s the only way to be happy.
Martha Washington

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Lee Iacocca

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

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.
Henry Ford

A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.
Scott Allen

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.
Lee Iacocca

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

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 neighbour on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
Brian Tracy

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

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

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

In business, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
Chester L. Karrass

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
Pearl S. Buck

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
John H. Patterson

For many years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.
Charles Erwin Wilson

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

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