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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