Business Quotes

Our searchable collection of quotes and aphorisms aims to be the best, not the biggest. Perfect for making a convincing point at the negotiation table, or in your speech or presentation.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.
Jacob Bronowski

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
TS Eliot

Opportunities can drop into your lap - if you place your lap where opportunities drop.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.
H Jackson Brown Jr

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently.

Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Marianne Williamson

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison S Marder

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega Gasset

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time
Confucius

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences, as by our expectations.
George Bernard Shaw

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

Out beyond the realm of right and wrong there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Rumi

Pain is temporary, victory is forever.

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