Top 650 Business Quotes

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
D. H. Lawrence
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
Elon Musk
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I’ve done it for 20 years. I live well.
Tommy Kirk
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recogn

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
Ross Perot
I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.
Jerry Jeff Walker
If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you’ll have a good life.
Adam Carolla
At the end of the day, I am a Marwari. So I will always think of business like a Marwari!
Dinesh Paliwal
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
Jamie Dimon
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle Onassis
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
Kevin O’Leary
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
Rupert Murdoch
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.
Martha Stewart
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Smedley Butler
We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they’re adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
Randall L. Stephenson
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Richard Branson
‘Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
Richard Chamberlain
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen
Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Benjamin Franklin
I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
Leila Janah
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Michael LeBoeuf
There’s no business like show business.
Irving Berlin
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Snoop Dogg
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you’re too inefficient.
Sam Walton
Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I’ve been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.
Randy Jackson
Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
Jack Ma
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods
Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
James Carville
In the TV business, you’ve got to write fast, and someone will tell you, ‘Can you rewrite this episode before… 6 P.M.?’ So that’s when you rewrite it. You can’t wait for the muse to show up.
Noah Hawley
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising age

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy
Chinese people, young people, they don’t go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
Jack Ma
I don’t often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She’s a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she’s both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
What kind of business world are we living in?
Jack Ma
We’re in the business of selling pleasure. We don’t sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.
Alain Wertheimer
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Calvin Coolidge
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.
Sam Graves
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden
I don’t believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
Mel Brooks
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan
I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
Gautam Adani
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
A. N. Wilson
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
Bill Ackman
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
George William Russell
I’m not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
John Paul DeJoria
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry Ford
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.
Peter Jones
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits – ah! that is another matter – twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent – the sky is the limit.
Smedley Butler
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley
What we have to do is support business, but also support our workers with job training programs and with reasonable wages.
Gina Raimondo
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
Robert Anton Wilson
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley