Quotessence
Home / Topics / Business Quotes

Business Quotes

Browse 6919 quotes about Business.

Related topics

Business Quotes

“Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.”

“The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.”

“It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”

“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”

“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”