Business
Elon Musk on Business
“Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.”
Steve Jobs on Innovation
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Movie Quote on Health and Economy
“The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.”
Bill Gates on Technology
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
Winston Churchill on Business
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
Scott Adams on Business
“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”
Peter Drucker on Management
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Oscar Wilde on Business
“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.”
John C. Dvorak on Computers and Business
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.”
Lord Acton on Business
“I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.”
Mohandas K. Gandhi on Money
“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.“
William Feather on Business
“A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.“
Ronald Reagan on Economy
“The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Robert W. Sarnoff on Finance
“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”
Demosthenes on Business and Success
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
Bob Hope on Sports
“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.”
Oscar Wilde on Income
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
Stephen Leacock on Advertising
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
J. Paul Getty on Money
“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”
Howard Scott on Business
“Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”
Donald Trump on Moderation
“A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn’t exactly been one of moderation.”
Henry Ford on Business and Money
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Bob Hope on Money
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.“
Putt’s Law
“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.”