Quotes about business

You learn in this business: If you want a friend, get a dog.

Carl Icahn

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Zig Ziglar

At twenty-eight, I decided to quit show business, get married, lead a so-called normal life. To give you an idea of how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

Rodney Dangerfield

It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.

Phil Knight

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

Tony Robbins

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Zig Ziglar

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

Thomas Edison

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.

Florence Nightingale

I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

Warren Buffett