Famous Business Quotes

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Cut your losses and let your profits run.
Proverb

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
General George S. Pattonv

he purpose of a business is to create and keep customers.
Theodore Levitt

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
Benjamin Morrell

It's a poor workman who blames his tools.

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

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson Essayist, Lexicographer

Most business plans fail. Obviously, success is not a realistic goal But the people who manage the most spectacular failures get promoted because of their experience.
Dogbert

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
Gertrude Stein

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

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
J. Marriott Jr.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M Schwab American stockbroker

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Bela Karolyi

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn Rand

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren�t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
Michael Gerber