Business Quotes - Page 4

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Never quit. Never give up.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.