“The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.”
Adam Smith
LabourProperty
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.
“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command.”
Adam Smith
CapitalInvestment
“What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.”
Adam Smith
PrudenceEconomics
“What improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole.”
Adam Smith
ProsperitySociety
“The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.”
Andrew Carnegie
PhilanthropyOpportunity
“Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them.”
Henry Ford
MoneyCharacter
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”
Henry Ford
ValueCustomer Focus
“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”
Henry Ford
DetailsWealth
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
Henry Ford
CompetitionImprovement
“One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities.”
Henry Ford
FearGrowth
“The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; he must have a larger ambition.”
John D. Rockefeller
AmbitionPurpose
“Without promotion something terrible happens... nothing!”
P. T. Barnum
MarketingFunny
“Avoid debt.”
P. T. Barnum
DebtFinance
“The noblest art is that of making others happy.”
P. T. Barnum
ServiceHappiness
“Economy is the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the mother of Liberty.”
Samuel Smiles
SavingFreedom
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
Samuel Smiles
FocusProductivity
“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.”
Elbert Hubbard
Work EthicGrowth
“The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and honors, for but one thing, and that is Initiative.”
Elbert Hubbard
InitiativeSuccess
“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess.”
Charles M. Schwab
LeadershipEnthusiasm
“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”
Charles M. Schwab
EnthusiasmSuccess
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
J. P. Morgan
MotivationHuman Nature
“Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means.”
Russell Conwell
GreatnessResourcefulness
“The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
EthicsConsequences
“Economy is a high, humane office, a sacrament, when its aim is grand.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SavingPurpose
“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PrinciplesWisdom