All About BUSINESS QUOTES - 3

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

So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes 

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

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

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.
Charles A. Jaffe 

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

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

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch 

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
David Ogilvy 

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

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

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

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

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.
Walter Lippmann 

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

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

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler 

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

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
Mitt Romney 

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


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.
Charles A. Jaffe 

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

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

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.
Paul A. Volcker 

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Glenn Beck 

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren 

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

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

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

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.
Steve Ross 

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All about BUSINESS QUOTES - 2

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.
Theodore Isaac Rubin 

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

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

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

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty 

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

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

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

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton 

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 

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs 

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.
Jennifer Aniston 

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

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
Debbi Fields 

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

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

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

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

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.
Thomas J. Watson 

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


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

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes 

If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Edgar R. Fiedler 

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

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty 

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.
William Wordsworth 

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

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin 

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

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith 

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov 

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Robert Browning 

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.
Meg Whitman 

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith 


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.
Dale Carnegie 

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

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

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

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.
Richard Nelson Bolles 

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

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

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

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

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

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy 

Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett 

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon 

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

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell 

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

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

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes 

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus 

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright 

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All About BUSINESS QUOTES - 1

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

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.
Stephen Covey 

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin 

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

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert 

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

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen 

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

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

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.
Andrew Carnegie 

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.
Tim Berners-Lee 

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier 

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

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois 

Business is in itself a power.
Garet Garrett 

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry Ford 

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

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

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem 


Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams 

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

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.
Evan Esar 

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

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney 

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.
Gary Ryan Blair 

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem 

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.
Colin Powell 

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick 

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

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.
Herbert Hoover 

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

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

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.
Robert Orben 

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.
Ted Turner 

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

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

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen 

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.
Charles A. Jaffe 

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

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