Business

(104 votes)   Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(94 votes)   Cut your losses and let your profits run.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(94 votes)   Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(85 votes)   In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Charles Revson
American Businessman, Chairman of Revlon

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(83 votes)   A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Gerald Stanley Lee

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(81 votes)   If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Richard Marcinko
American Business Author

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(78 votes)   In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(77 votes)   To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

John H. Patterson
American Businessman, Founder of National Cash Register

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(76 votes)   Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Edwin H. Stuart

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(74 votes)   When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler

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(72 votes)   I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(70 votes)   A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''

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(68 votes)   In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(68 votes)   It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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(67 votes)   The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Harold S. Geneen
1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT

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