Business Quotes

businessQuotes.json

[
  {
    "author":"Abraham Lincoln",
    "quote":"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
  },
  {
    "author":"Adam Smith",
    "quote":"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
  },
  {
    "author":"Alexis de Tocqueville",
    "quote":"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
  },
  {
    "author":"Alfred A. Montapert",
    "quote":"All lasting business is built on friendship."
  },
  {
    "author":"Ambrose Bierce",
    "quote":"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
  },
  {
    "author":"An Wang",
    "quote":"Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change."
  },
  {
    "author":"Andre Malraux",
    "quote":"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."
  },
  {
    "author":"Andrew Carnegie",
    "quote":"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."
  },
  {
    "author":"Andrew Carnegie",
    "quote":"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit."
  },
  {
    "author":"Andy Warhol",
    "quote":"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."
  },
  {
    "author":"Andy Warhol",
    "quote":"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
  },
  {
    "author":"Andy Warhol",
    "quote":"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."
  },
  {
    "author":"Aristotle Onassis",
    "quote":"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
  },
  {
    "author":"B. C. Forbes",
    "quote":"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
  },
  {
    "author":"Benjamin Jowett",
    "quote":"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
  },
  {
    "author":"Blaine Lee",
    "quote":"The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself."
  },
  {
    "author":"Blaine Lee",
    "quote":"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
  },
  {
    "author":"Cecil Rhodes",
    "quote":"So little done, so much to do."
  },
  {
    "author":"Charles Kettering",
    "quote":"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it."
  },
  {
    "author":"Coco Chanel",
    "quote":"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
  },
  {
    "author":"Colin Powell",
    "quote":"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
  },
  {
    "author":"Confucius",
    "quote":"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
  },
  {
    "author":"Dale Carnegie",
    "quote":"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
  },
  {
    "author":"David Ogilvy",
    "quote":"If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative."
  },
  {
    "author":"David Ogilvy",
    "quote":"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
  },
  {
    "author":"Debbi Fields",
    "quote":"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
  },
  {
    "author":"Dee Hock",
    "quote":"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it."
  },
  {
    "author":"Don Marquis",
    "quote":"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
  },
  {
    "author":"Don Marquis",
    "quote":"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
  },
  {
    "author":"Edgar Fiedler",
    "quote":"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
  },
  {
    "author":"Edward Gibbon",
    "quote":"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
  },
  {
    "author":"Elon Musk",
    "quote":"Great companies are built on great products."
  },
  {
    "author":"Elon Musk",
    "quote":"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
  },
  {
    "author":"Fred Allen",
    "quote":"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."
  },
  {
    "author":"Gary Ryan Blair",
    "quote":"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."
  },
  {
    "author":"Harold S. Geneen",
    "quote":"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
  },
  {
    "author":"Henry Ford",
    "quote":"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
  },
  {
    "author":"Henry Ford",
    "quote":"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
  },
  {
    "author":"Henry R. Luce",
    "quote":"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."
  },
  {
    "author":"Herbert Hoover",
    "quote":"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
  },
  {
    "author":"Howard Aiken",
    "quote":"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
  },
  {
    "author":"J. Paul Getty",
    "quote":"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."
  },
  {
    "author":"J. Paul Getty",
    "quote":"I buy when other people are selling."
  },
  {
    "author":"Jack Welch",
    "quote":"Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while."
  },
  {
    "author":"Jack Welch",
    "quote":"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
  },
  {
    "author":"James H. Boren",
    "quote":"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."
  },
  {
    "author":"Jane Fonda",
    "quote":"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
  },
  {
    "author":"Jeff Bezos",
    "quote":"The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'"
  },
  {
    "author":"Jeff Bezos",
    "quote":"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second."
  },
  {
    "author":"John Kenneth Galbraith",
    "quote":"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
  },
  {
    "author":"Laurence J. Peter",
    "quote":"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
  },
  {
    "author":"Lee Iacocca",
    "quote":"Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss."
  },
  {
    "author":"Lucius Annaeus Seneca",
    "quote":"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
  },
  {
    "author":"Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach",
    "quote":"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty."
  },
  {
    "author":"Mark Twain",
    "quote":"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
  },
  {
    "author":"Mary Kay Ash",
    "quote":"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps."
  },
  {
    "author":"Max de Pree",
    "quote":"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
  },
  {
    "author":"Michael Korda",
    "quote":"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
  },
  {
    "author":"Napoleon Hill",
    "quote":"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."
  },
  {
    "author":"Niccolo Machiavelli",
    "quote":"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
  },
  {
    "author":"Orison Swett Marden",
    "quote":"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."
  },
  {
    "author":"Paula Abdul",
    "quote":"Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with."
  },
  {
    "author":"Peter Drucker",
    "quote":"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."
  },
  {
    "author":"Peter Drucker",
    "quote":"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
  },
  {
    "author":"Peter Drucker",
    "quote":"Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money."
  },
  {
    "author":"Peter Drucker",
    "quote":"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."
  },
  {
    "author":"Peter Drucker",
    "quote":"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
  },
  {
    "author":"Publilius Syrus",
    "quote":"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."
  },
  {
    "author":"Publilius Syrus",
    "quote":"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."
  },
  {
    "author":"Richard Nelson Bolles",
    "quote":"Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do."
  },
  {
    "author":"Robert H. Schuller",
    "quote":"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet."
  },
  {
    "author":"Robert H. Schuller",
    "quote":"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
  },
  {
    "author":"Robert Orben",
    "quote":"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
  },
  {
    "author":"Rose Kennedy",
    "quote":"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause."
  },
  {
    "author":"Ross Perot",
    "quote":"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers."
  },
  {
    "author":"Sam Walton",
    "quote":"We're all working together; that's the secret."
  },
  {
    "author":"Sam Walton",
    "quote":"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
  },
  {
    "author":"Sanford I. Weill",
    "quote":"Details create the big picture."
  },
  {
    "author":"Scott Adams",
    "quote":"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."
  },
  {
    "author":"Steve Jobs",
    "quote":"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
  },
  {
    "author":"Steve Jobs",
    "quote":"I want to put a ding in the universe."
  },
  {
    "author":"Ted Turner",
    "quote":"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job."
  },
  {
    "author":"Theodore Isaac Rubin",
    "quote":"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
  },
  {
    "author":"Thomas A. Edison",
    "quote":"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
  },
  {
    "author":"Thomas A. Edison",
    "quote":"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
  },
  {
    "author":"Thomas Carlyle",
    "quote":"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
  },
  {
    "author":"Thomas J. Watson",
    "quote":"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
  },
  {
    "author":"Thomas Jefferson",
    "quote":"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
  },
  {
    "author":"Tim Berners-Lee",
    "quote":"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."
  },
  {
    "author":"Tom Brokaw",
    "quote":"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
  },
  {
    "author":"Tom Peters",
    "quote":"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
  },
  {
    "author":"W. Clement Stone",
    "quote":"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything."
  },
  {
    "author":"W. Clement Stone",
    "quote":"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."
  },
  {
    "author":"W. Edwards Deming",
    "quote":"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
  },
  {
    "author":"Walt Disney",
    "quote":"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
  },
  {
    "author":"Walter Scott",
    "quote":"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."
  },
  {
    "author":"Will Rogers",
    "quote":"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."
  },
  {
    "author":"William Bernbach",
    "quote":"Word of mouth is the best medium of all."
  },
  {
    "author":"William Wordsworth",
    "quote":"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
  },
  {
    "author":"Winston Churchill",
    "quote":"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
  },
  {
    "author":"Winston Churchill",
    "quote":"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
  }
]