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A Month of Business Quotations

 

 

A Month of Business Quotations

 

1
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
- Richard Branson
 
2
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
- Charles Dickens
 
3
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
 
4
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.
- Saudi Arabian Proverb
 
5
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
- Elting Morison
 
6
To be successful in business, be daring, be first, be different.
- William Marchant
 
7
A real executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.
- Vince Lombardi
 
8
When the artist paints what the public demands, it is not art, but business.
- Charles Sprading
 
9
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
- Tommy Henrich
 
10
The executive's chief business is to organize, deputize, and supervise.
- George Ripley
 
11
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis
 
12
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
- Henry Ford
 
13
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
-  Helen Keller
 
14
Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
- Sophie Tucker
 
15
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
- Johnny Carson
 
16
O! that a man might know/ The end of this day's business ere it come.
- William Shakespeare
 
17
What made me a success in business would make me a failure as a politician.
- H. Ross Perot
 
18
A "tired businessman" is one whose business is usually not a successful one.
- Joseph Grundy
 
19
A good executive believes in sharing credit with the one who did the work.
- William Rotsler
 
20
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
- Henry Ford
 
21
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
- Woodrow Wilson
 
22
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
- Nathan Rothschild
 
23
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.
- Andy Warhol
 
24
When two men in a business always agree one of them is unnecessary.
- William Wrigley, Jr.
 
25
When the artist paints what the public demands, it is not art, but business.
- Charles Sprading
 
26
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
- Tommy Henrich
 
27
Executives who get there and stay suggest solutions when they present problems.
- Malcolm Forbes
 
28
Clothes don't make the man but they go far towards making the businessman.
- Thomas J. Watson Jr.
 
29
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
- John G. Pollard
 
30
The Swiss who are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.
- William Faulkner
 
31
Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture not doing a sum.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.