Business Quotes
Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me.Jerry Maguire
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 have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - And spirit.Jacqueline Cochran
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. - - Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U. S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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
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
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
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare
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
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.Johnny Carson
Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses.Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.D. March
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
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
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
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.Robert P. Vanderpoel
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.Roy L. Smith
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
I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together.Margaret Hilda Thatche
Business today consists in persuading crowds.Gerald Stanley Lee
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.Donald Sinden
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.Lionel Richie
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.George F. Burns
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.Thorstein Veblen
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.Paul Val? ry
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.Peter Drucke
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.Henry Ford
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.Jack Anderson
What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.Keniche Ohnae
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.H. L. Mencken
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.Arab Prove
As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.Edward Bedore
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
