Business Quotes

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Warren G. Bennis

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter F. Drucker

It's a poor workman who blames his tools.

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well--business as usual, Mr. Ward!

Ayn Rand Atlas Shr

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

You have to learn to treat people as a resource......you have to ask not what do they cost, but what is the yield, what can they produce?

Peter F. Drucker

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

David Lasater

If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they'll work. But the main point is that you have to do them -- a lot.

Joe Girard

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

Most business plans fail. Obviously, success is not a realistic goal But the people who manage the most spectacular failures get promoted because of their experience.

Dogbert

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Wayne Calloway

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

Gertrude Stein

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Malcolm Forbes

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter F. Drucker

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Donald Trump