“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard
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Business Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · BUSINESS
Business Quotes
Read 200 of the best business quotes on success, money, leadership and entrepreneurship from Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin and more.
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
Elbert Hubbard
TalentTechnology
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own back yard, if you but dig for them.”
Russell Conwell
OpportunityEntrepreneurship
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
Orison Swett Marden
OpportunityAction
“In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.”
Frederick Winslow Taylor
SystemsManagement
“Remember that time is money.”
Benjamin Franklin
TimeMoney
“Remember that credit is money.”
Benjamin Franklin
CreditFinance
“The world is his, who has money to go over it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
MoneyFreedom
“Money is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
MoneyEconomics
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau
SimplicityCaution
“And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
William Shakespeare
TimingOpportunity
“To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.”
William Shakespeare
PassionWork
“A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.”
The Bible (Proverbs 11:1)
HonestyEthics
“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.”
The Bible (Proverbs 13:11)
Hard WorkWealth
“The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.”
The Bible (Proverbs 21:5)
PlanningDiligence
“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:23)
ManagementAttention
“He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.”
The Bible (Proverbs 10:4)
DiligenceWealth
“Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 11:1)
InvestmentPatience
“For the love of money is the root of all evil.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 6:10)
GreedValues
“The mind of the superior man is conversant with righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.”
Confucius
EthicsValues
“Riches and honours are what men desire. If they cannot be obtained in the proper way, they should not be held.”
Confucius
IntegrityWealth
“Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.”
Francis Bacon
WealthIntegrity
“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
Francis Bacon
MoneyEconomy
“Riches are for spending.”
Francis Bacon
MoneySpending
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
Samuel Johnson
MoneyWork