“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.”
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.
“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'”
“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.”
“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
“My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.”
“Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.”
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”
“I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.”
“We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.”
“I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.”
“As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.”
“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.”
“Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.”
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
“I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.”
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”