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.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of his creatures when he made him.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The middle of the road is not such a bad place, abrupt edges don't exist there.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.
Josiah G Holland

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Mikhael Gorbachev

The more fully we give of our energy, the more it returns to us.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself the more you are dominated by them.
Harold Sherman

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
J Allen Boone

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert

The most important negotiations we will win are with ourselves.
Calum Coburn

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Jung

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are
Winston Churchill

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
George Bernard Shaw

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
Edmund Burke

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde

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