Business Quotes

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

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Jean Sibelius

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.
Richard M Nixon

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you know until they know how much you care.

People don't quit companies. They quit managers and bosses.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass themselves by without wondering.
St Augustine

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Angelique Arnauld

Perfection is our goal. Excellence will be tolerated.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran

Philosophy: It's not a path that leads to a door, but rather a path that leads to a door, but rather a path that leads up a mountain towards the sky.

Playing safe is only playing.
Chuck Olson

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.
John Quinton

Practice is the work and performance is the relaxation.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Proceed as if success is inevitable.

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?
Maurice Mascaranhas

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Henry David Thoreau

Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.

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