Business Quotes and Sayings

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Henry Ford

In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, you’re obsolete.
- Cher

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
- Anonymous

If you are failing to plan,
you are planning to fail.
- Tariq Siddique

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
- George F. Burns

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

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Corporation – An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
- Stephen R. Covey

Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
- Thomas Watson

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

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
- Abigail Van Buren

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that “he profits most who serves best,” and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
- B. F. Harris

You can take my business, burn up my building, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.
- Henry Ford

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
- Thomas Watson

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell

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

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles