Business Quotes

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

Lee Iacocca

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Aaron Burr

War is the business of barbarians

Napoleon Bonaparte

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Harold Coffin

The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows

Aristotle Onassis

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

Leo Burnett

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Paul Valery

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry R. Luce

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world

Andrew Mellon

People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.

Richard Thalheimer

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Lee Iacocca

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Derby Brown

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Hosea Ballou

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality

Richard Cecil

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

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

When a management team 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

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

Zig Ziglar

I understand small business growth. I was one.

George W. Bush

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.

Sol Hurok

Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin