Business Quotes

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.

Fiona Shaw

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Abraham Lincoln

The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.

John L. Graham

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Simon Mainwaring

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Steve Ballmer

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

Lord Chesterfield

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Harvey S. Firestone

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Henry Ford

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

William Hague

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Richard Milhous Nixon

War is the business of barbarians.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Jodi Picoult

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Rupert Murdoch

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

John Irving

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Peter Drucker