Business Quotes

Business is where ambition meets reality. These quotes cover entrepreneurship, leadership, risk, failure, and the daily grind of building something that lasts. Expect hard truths alongside inspiration — the best business advice usually includes both.

“Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.”

Carter G. Woodson

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“You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

will.i.am

“Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.”

Henry Louis Gates

“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”

Will Rogers

“Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.”

Harvey S. Firestone

“Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.”

Rod Stewart

“As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.”

Ron Wyden

“I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.”

Daniel Craig

“You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.”

Carly Fiorina

“The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.”

Dave Chappelle

“As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.”

Mia Wasikowska

“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”

J. Paul Getty

“Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.”

David Ogilvy

“I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.”

Richard Branson

“But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.”

Steve Jobs

“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.”

Herbert Hoover

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