Business Quotes and sayings

If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Townsend

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better… and: do more of what you do…
David Joseph Schwartz

People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.
Will Rogers

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
Alan Greenspan

Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
Bob Parsons

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno

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

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.
Alexander Pope

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
Octave Mirbeau

None of us is as smart as all of us.
Japanese proverb

One chance is all you need.
Jesse Owens

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done.
Benjamin Morrell

Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.
Doug Williams

There is one rule for industrialists and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford

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

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
Dale Carnegie

A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded.
Anonymous

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
Thomas J. Watson

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because… All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.
Mark Cuban

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand

Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Ambrose Bierce

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
Joseph E. Levine

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
Oscar Wilde

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure
Anonymous

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Zig Ziglar

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes