Biz quotes

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

The chief business of the American people is business.
Calvin Coolidge

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.
Aldus Manutius

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman

My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Sydney Biddle Barrows

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric Hoffer

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
David M. Ogilvy

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Golda Meir

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
George Ade

Good design can't fix broken business models.
Jeffrey Veen

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
Jurgen Schrempp

A dinner lubricates business.
Lord William Stowell

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein Veblen

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.
Mitchell Caplan

To fill the hour -- that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.
Tara Hunt

Warren Buffett Quotes

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
Warren Buffett

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
Warren Buffett

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Warren Buffett

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett

Business Quotes

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Al Boliska

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem