1,036 Quotes Regarding Business


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

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

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

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

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

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

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

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

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch