Practical Business Quotes

A great collection of the best business quotes ever said or written by the greatest authors and thinkers. The selected quotes are brief and practical and embody powerful and proven business success concepts.

A great read anytime in your day and is pleasant to share with your coworkers and friends. Use the quotes in your communication; you will look smarter in no time.

Sample of Practical Business Quotes:

In order to succeed, you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Persistence

What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

Planning

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

Success

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

Goal Setting

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

Communication

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Alan Ashley-Pitt

Goal Setting

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

Success

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

Time Management

Success in business is to know something nobody else knows

Aristotle Onassis

Develop an Edge

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

Peter Drucker

Marketing

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

Jim Rohn

Goal Setting

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

Happiness

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.

Stephen R. Covey

Happiness

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The Key to Success is Action

Brian Tracy

Taking Action

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

Stephen R. Covey

Knowledge

If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.

Brian Tracy

Knowledge

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Leadership

Sample of Practical Business Quotes:

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Stephen R. Covey

Communication

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Brian Tracy

Develop an Edge

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Critical Thinking

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning

Bill Gates

Sales

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

Productivity

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

Planning

The only source of knowledge is experience

Albert Einstein

Knowledge

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

Happiness

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

Attitude

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein

Creative Thinking

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Anthony Robbins

Goal Setting

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it"

Howard W. Newton

Quality