Business Quotes

If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

If we achieve our sustainability targets and no one else follows, we will have failed.

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you are a business failure.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Less government in business and more business in government.

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

The only winner today is big business.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.