Quotes by Businessmen

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.
George W. Bush
Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.
George W. Bush
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Nelson Rockefeller
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail
As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.
Thomas A. Edison
I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles O. Finley
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
Donald Trump
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
E. H. Harriman
Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Edward B. Butler
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
William Maxwell Aitken
If people knew what they had to do to be successful most people wouldn't.
Lord Thomson of Fleet
When thinking won't cure fear action will.
W Clement Stone
There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.
Henri Deterding
A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are.
Victor Lownes
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
William Wrigley
We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.
Thomas J. Watson
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.
David Sarnoff
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Dewar
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles F. Kettering
The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles F. Kettering
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on ... the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?
Ray Kroc
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III
The public be damned.
W. H. Vanderbilt
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles F. Kettering
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
W Clement Stone
If you act like you're rich you'll get rich.
Adnan Koashoggi
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Franklin Kettering
Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.
George Bush
As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?
Lord Trent
It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.
Charles F. Kettering
Hair is another name for sex.
Vidal Sassoon
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Everyone has got it in him if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Charles Schwab
If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison
I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas Alva Edison
Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
Richard Devos
There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W Clement Stone
Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out it takes much more courage to listen.
John D. Rockefeller III
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth
There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
John H. Patterson
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston
The public be damned.
W. H. Vanderbilt
Real difficulties can be overcome it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles F. Kettering
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
W Clement Stone