Entrepreneurship & Business: Business Quotes

Explore a curated collection of business quotes highlighting leadership, strategy, innovation, and resilience. These concise insights from entrepreneurs, executives, and thinkers aim to clarify priorities, inspire focus, and support confident decision-making. Browse themes including customer value, disciplined execution, risk management, and sustainable growth. Whether you are building a startup or guiding a mature organization, these quotes offer practical reminders to navigate challenges, nurture teams, and align vision with results.

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"Competition is a sin"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"Any colour - so long as it's black"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"Business is the salt of life"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

Philip Johnson, Architect

Philip Johnson

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

Adlai E. Stevenson

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur"

Red Adair, Celebrity

Red Adair

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"No nation was ever ruined by trade"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

Alfred A. Montapert

"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs"

W. Edwards Deming, Scientist

"Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do"

J. P. Morgan, Businessman

"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships"

Ross Perot, Businessman

Ross Perot

"Business is a combination of war and sport"

Andre Maurois, Writer

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"The business of America is business"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand"

Al Capone, Criminal

"I've learned that you can't make everyone happy, but as long as you do the right thing for your business, you'll be successful"

John Fredriksen, Businessman

John Fredriksen

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life"

Charles Eames, Designer

Charles Eames

"I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

Aristotle Onassis

"Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"I'm not a gangster, I'm a businessman. And businessmen don't kill each other"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

Meyer Lansky

"The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads"

John Moody, Businessman

"In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you"

Victor Kiam, Businessman

"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do"

Roy L. Smith, Clergyman

Roy L. Smith

"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

Alexandre Dumas

"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"There are three main markets that will always exist: Health, wealth, and relationships"

Alex Hormozi, Entrepreneur

Alex Hormozi

"What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"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, Poet

William Wordsworth

"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

David Ogilvy

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