Business Quotes

“It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.”

-- Jeffrey Kluger

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

“When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.”

-- Mitt Romney

“It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.”

-- Rupert Murdoch

“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

-- Twyla Tharp

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

“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.”

-- Mark Zuckerberg

“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”

-- Lee Iacocca

“I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.”

-- Jack Kemp