Business Quotes
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
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (novel)
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare
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
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.Benjamin Franklin
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.Henry Robinson Luce
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.Lenny Bruce
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.Joseph Rickaby
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.George F. Burns
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off.Andrew Schneide
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.Jack Holland
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.Will Rogers
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
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.Ambrose Bierce
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
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.Andy Warhol
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.William Feathe
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
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld.Peter Drucke
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
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
Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?Sidney Madwed
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist.J. Paul Getty
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
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
What other people think about me is not my business.Michael J. Fox, Lucky Man - A memoi
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.Charles M. Schwa
