Famous Business Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of famous business quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”
– Alan Greenspan

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– “Alan Kay, Father Of The Personal
Computer”

“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”
– Albert Einstein

“Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
– Albert Einstein

“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
– Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
– Albert Einstein

“It doesn’t work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.”
– American Proverb

“The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.”
– Andrew Carnegie

“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
– Andy Warhol

“Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling.”
– Anita Roddick

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
– Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles Of The Future

“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
– Babe Ruth

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
– Bill Gates

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
– Bill Gates

“Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.”
– Bill Gates

“For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.”
– Bill O’ Reilly

“If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.”
– Bill Rancic

“The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.”
– Blaine Lee

“Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.”
– Bob Parsons

“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– C.J. Walker

“There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.”
– C.J. Walker

“No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others.. or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Carlos Castaneda

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
– Charles Darwin

“Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.”
– Charles Dickens

“Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”
– Charles F. Kettering

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”
– Charles F. Kettering

“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.”
– Charles M. Schwab

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer

“When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.”
– Chu Chin-Ning

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
– Coco Chanel

“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”
– Coleman Hawkins, Jazz Musician

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
– Confucius

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