“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie
JudgmentActions
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 secret of success lies not in doing your own work but in recognizing the right man to do it.”
Andrew Carnegie
HiringDelegation
“Pioneering don't pay.”
Andrew Carnegie
StrategyRisk
“Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.”
Andrew Carnegie
FocusIntegrity
“Do real and permanent good in this world.”
Andrew Carnegie
PurposeLegacy
“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.”
Henry Ford
QualityMarkets
“Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.”
Henry Ford
CompetitionGrowth
“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”
Henry Ford
Problem SolvingLeadership
“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.”
Henry Ford
EnthusiasmMotivation
“There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”
Henry Ford
PotentialGrowth
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.”
Henry Ford
MoneyIndependence
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
John D. Rockefeller
OpportunityResilience
“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”
John D. Rockefeller
People SkillsHiring
“Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.”
P. T. Barnum
Customer ServiceManners
“Learn something useful.”
P. T. Barnum
SkillsLearning
“Every crowd has a silver lining.”
P. T. Barnum
MarketingFunny
“A place for everything, and everything in its place.”
Samuel Smiles
OrganizationEfficiency
“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success.”
Samuel Smiles
HopeSuccess
“Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.”
Elbert Hubbard
SuccessGrowth
“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it.”
Elbert Hubbard
FailureSuccess
“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
Elbert Hubbard
FunnyWisdom
“A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.”
Orison Swett Marden
SalesMarketing
“Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.”
Russell Conwell
MoneyAmbition
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
John Wanamaker
Work-Life BalanceHealth
“Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undercut or destroy.”
Marshall Field
ReputationCompetition