Quotes on Business

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.