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Business Quotes


These are some of the best 'Business' quotations and sayings.


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

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

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.

A decorator can make lots of money - assuming she wins the lottery.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

After being on the road so much I want to spend more time with my family, who I hear are wonderful people.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgment of probabilities, and not on certainties.

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

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

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

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

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

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

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.

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

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.


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