Business Quotes: Inspiring Insights for Success (Page 5)

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others"

Helen Keller, Author

"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart"

John Morley, Statesman

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart"

John Morley, Statesman

"Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive"

George Washington, President

"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire"

Horace, Poet

"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer"

Tom Peters, Businessman

"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The purpose of a business is to create a customer"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it"

George Will, Journalist

"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none"

Andrew Jackson, President

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

Henry Ford, Businessman

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

"All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty