“Remember that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money.”
Benjamin Franklin
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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.
“The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or eight at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer.”
Benjamin Franklin
ReputationHard Work
“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.”
Benjamin Franklin
DebtFinance
“Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.”
Benjamin Franklin
DebtDiscipline
“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
Benjamin Franklin
DebtFunny
“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”
Benjamin Franklin
MoneyValue
“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”
Benjamin Franklin
Small BusinessDiligence
“Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.”
Benjamin Franklin
ControlManagement
“The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands.”
Benjamin Franklin
ManagementAttention
“Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.”
Benjamin Franklin
SpendingWisdom
“Industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.”
Benjamin Franklin
Hard WorkDebt
“A penny saved is two pence clear.”
Benjamin Franklin
SavingMoney
“Many a little makes a mickle.”
Benjamin Franklin
SavingSmall Steps
“The rising man must do something exceptional, and beyond the range of his special department.”
Andrew Carnegie
CareerExcellence
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves.”
Andrew Carnegie
Self-HelpResponsibility
“Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.”
Andrew Carnegie
CostsProfit
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth.”
Andrew Carnegie
WealthResponsibility
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
Henry Ford
FailureResilience
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”
Henry Ford
CapitalPurpose
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
Henry Ford
SimplicityFunny
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
ThinkingStrategy
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
John D. Rockefeller
ManagementLeadership
“Be systematic.”
P. T. Barnum
OrganizationDiscipline
“Let hope predominate, but be not too visionary.”
P. T. Barnum
OptimismRealism
“Energy accomplishes more than genius.”
Samuel Smiles
EnergyEffort