Quotes on Business

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.