Business Quotes

64. More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

^{Rose Kennedy}

65. We’re all working together; that’s the secret.

^{Sam Walton}

66. 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}

67. 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}

68. When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

^{Dwight D. Eisenhower}

69. My father told me, never have partners. – Best Business Quotes

^{Howard Hughes}

70. 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}

71. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

^{Walt Disney}

72. One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
73. I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

^{Edward Appleton}

74. The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

^{Blaine Lee}

75. Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.

^{Ross Perot}

76. I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

^{Jeff Bezos}

77. Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. – Best Business Quotes

^{Kin Hubbard}

78. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

^{Peter Drucker}

79. 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}

80. I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

^{John Dalberg-Acton}

81. Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

^Tacitus

82. An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

^{Fred Allen}

83. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. – Best Business Quotes

^{Bill Gates}

84. For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

^{Charles Baudelaire}

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

^{Abraham Lincoln}

86. Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

^{Frank Lloyd Wright}

87. Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

^{Peter Drucker}

88. I buy when other people are selling. – Best Business Quotes

^{J. Paul Getty}

89. Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.

^{Thomas A. Edison}

90. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.

^{Mary Kay Ash}

91. Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

^{William Bernbach}

92. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

^{Andy Warhol}

93. All lasting business is built on friendship.

^{Alfred A. Montapert}

94. Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality its left. – Best Business Quotes

^{John Ray}

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

^{Jane Fonda}

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

^{Evan Esar}

97. Great companies are built on great products.

^{Elon Musk}

98. Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.

^{William Arthur Ward}

99. Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. – Best Business Quotes

^{Henry R. Luce}

100. Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

^{Elon Musk}

Business Quotes 101 – 200

101. 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}

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

^{John Cleese}

103. If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

^{Jeff Bezos}

104. The consumer isn’t a moron; she is your wife. – Best Business Quotes

^{David Ogilvy}

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

^{Mitt Romney}

106. Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

^{Harry Emerson Fosdick}

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

^{Steve Jobs}

108. Inside every working anarchy, there’s an Old Boy Network.

^{Mitch Kapor}

109. Our favorite holding period is forever.

^{Warren Buffett}

110. Business can be a source of progressive change.

^{Jerry Greenfield}

111. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.

^{Lee Iacocca}

112. I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

^{Elon Musk}

113. It’s called a pen. It’s like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

^{Dale Dauten}

114. A group or an artist shouldn’t get his money until his boss gets his.

^{Bobby Darin}

115. If you have to forecast, forecast often.

^{Edgar Fiedler}

116. If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

^{Rupert Murdoch}

117. The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. – Best Business Quotes

^{Publilius Syrus}

118. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

^{Elon Musk}

119. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

^{Thomas Carlyle}

120. 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}