Business Quotes

121. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. – Best Business Quotes

^{Alexis de Tocqueville}

122. No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

^{Edward Whitacre, Jr}.

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

^{Don Marquis}

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

^{Scott Adams}

125. The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

^{Andre Maurois}

126. As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

^{John Greenleaf Whittier}

129. Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don’t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

^{Tim Berners-Lee}

130. The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

^{Edgar Fiedler}

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

^{Norman Cousins}

132. Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money. – Best Business Quotes

^{Peter Drucker}

133. I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

^{James Cash Penney}

134. 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}

135. You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

^{Elon Musk}

136. 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}

137. The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’

^{Jeff Bezos}

138. When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. – Best Business Quotes

^{Elon Musk}

139. Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. – Creative Business Quotes

^{Jack Welch}

140. 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}

141. An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

^{Will Rogers}

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

^{Ambrose Bierce}

143. If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

^{B. C. Forbes}

144. 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}

145. The business of America is business.- Creative Business Quotes

^{Calvin Coolidge}

146. If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we’d all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

^{James Surowiecki}

147. ^Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

^{Henry Ward Beecher}

148. I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

^{Elon Musk}

149. 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}

150. People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

^{Mary Kay Ash}

151. 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}

152. 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}

153. Business is in itself a power.- Creative Business Quotes

^{Garet Garrett}

154. 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}

155. A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company.

^{Gordon Bethune}

156. We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.

^{Steve Ballmer}

157. My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.

^{Ted Turner}

159. Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.- Business Quotes

^{Tom Peters}

160. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

^{Henry Ford}

161. People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

^{Peter Drucker}

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

^{Robert H. Schuller}

163. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

^{Napoleon Hill}

164. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

^{W. Clement Stone}

165. If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.

^{David Ogilvy}

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

^{Thomas J. Watson}

167. 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.- Business Quotes

^{William Wordsworth}

^{Jeff Bezos}

170. I don’t think meals have any business being deductible. I’m for separation of calories and corporations.

^{Ralph Nader}

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

^{Winston Churchill}

172. Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that’s the game we’re playing today. – Best Business Quotes

^{Peter Diamandis}

173. Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

^{An Wang}

174. If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

^{Will Rogers}

175. Never argue with a profit.

^{Jeff Rich}

176. What we’ve gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question ‘Can we trust Microsoft?’

^{Steve Ballmer}

177. Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

^{Stanislaw Lem}