Quotes by Businessmen - Page 2

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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
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
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
J. Ogden Armour
When you work seven days a week fourteen hours a day you get lucky.
Armand Hammer
Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
Lord Dewar
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Harvey MacKay
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles Schwab
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Edison
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
I'm frank brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank I look frank.
Lord Thomson
Hate is such a luxurious emotion it can only be spent on one we love.
Bob Udkoff
Happiness has many roots but none more important than security.
E. R. Stettinius
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
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
A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
David Sarnoff
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.
Murray D. Edwards
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
General Sir John Monash
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
William Wrigley
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Robert Half
Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W Clement Stone
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth
We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.
Charles F. Kettering
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas A. Edison
Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures repeated failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.
Charles F. Kettering
Results? Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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
Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Lord Thomson of Fleet
Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
Every crowd has a silver lining.
P.T. Barnum
Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.
John H. Patterson
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved.
Thomas J. Watson
Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.
Thomas A. Edison
Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles F. Kettering
You build on cost and you borrow on value.
Paul Reichmann