Business Quotes
“There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.”
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”
-- Walter Lippmann
“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.”
-- Leo Burnett
“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
-- Thomas A. Edison
“Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.”
-- Charles Barkley
“Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.”
-- Marco Rubio
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
-- William Butler Yeats
“Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.”
-- J. C. Watts