Business quotes

We weren't the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

Steve Jobs

Capital isn’t scarce, vision is.

Sam Walton

Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.

Mark Twain

A brand is only as strong as the entrepreneur's spirit.

Robert Kiyosaki

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those that ride the subway.

Warren Buffett

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Steve Jobs

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

I don't think I've ever done an adventure where I've succeeded first time.

Richard Branson

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

Henry Ford

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Henry Ford

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani, even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.

Giorgio Armani

You have to be early in technology. You have to have conviction, and you can't be a market-timer.

Alberto Vilar

Success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Ben Jonson

An entrepreneur is a kind of genius who is born, not made.

Ann Winblad

As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work.

Chris Anderson

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

William Benton

Fair exchange is no robbery.

English Proverb

All publicity is good publicity.

English Proverb

The sale begins when the customer says yes.

Harvey MacKay

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

John Paul Getty

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

John Paul Getty

There will be hunters and hunted, winners and losers. What counts in global competition is the right strategy and success.

Heinrich von Pierer

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.

H. G. Bohn

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Archibald MacLeish

Infuse lightness into corporate dressing while still acknowledging that women won't go make board presentations with a blouse cut down to the navel.

Barbara Harris

Technology is a tool just like a salad fork. Each new piece of technology should be considered the same way a salad fork should when it comes to using it properly and with grace and elegance.

April Masini

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

David Ricardo