1,036 Quotes Regarding Business


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

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

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

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

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

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner

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