Business quotes

"My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil." 

-JP Getty-

"Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
-Vince Lombardi-

"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 

-Peter F. Drucker-

"Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game." 

-Sidney Sheldon-

"Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character." 

-Ayn Rand-

"If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible." 

-T. Harv Eker-

"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does." 

-Steuart Henderson Britt-

"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents." 

-Alexandre Dumas-

"Know what you own, and know why you own it." 

-Peter Lynch-

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes." 

-Zig Ziglar-

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal." 

-Napoleon Hill-

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." 

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War-

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." 

-Oscar Wilde-

"There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive." 

-Sophie Kinsella-

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." 

-Warren Buffett-

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity" 

-Sun Tzu, A Arte da Guerra-

"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard." 

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War-

"Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us."-Louisa May Alcott--Vince Lombardi-

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane." 

-Criss Jami-

"Truth builds trust." 

-Marilyn Suttle-

"I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life." 

-Warren Buffett-

"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does." 

-Jane Austen-

"who wishes to fight must first count the cost" 

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War-

"You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes." 

-Ronald Reagan-

"Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming." 

-Richard Branson-

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

-Henry Ford-

"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."
-Alexandre Dumas-

"Always deliver more than expected."

-Larry Page-

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."-Bill Gates-

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers." 

-Stephen R. Covey-