Daily Business Quotes:

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Running, Business Life, Inspirational Winning

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Make People Feel Better

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Majority And Minority, Courage To Change

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

source: "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Work, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

- Harold Geneen

source: "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

topic: Business, Two, Coins, Inspirational High School Graduation, Daily Business

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

- Jack Welch

source: "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Managing Change, Inspiring Business

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

- Ted Turner

topic: Jobs, Business, Son, Job Opportunities, Daily Business

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.

- Bill Gates

source: Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

topic: Information Technology, Daily Business, Manufacturing, Automation, Communication Technology

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Max Eastman

topic: Revenge, Opportunity, Doors, Live For Yourself, Marketing And Sales

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

topic: Success, Leadership, Business, Starting Week, Golden Rule

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Business, Great Company, Daily Business

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Inspiring, Country, Flags, Daily Business

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Business, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiration And Innovation

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Infinite Hope

Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports, Job Well Done, About Success

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

- Milton Berle

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Self Determination, Live For Yourself

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

- Henry J. Kaiser

source: "The Reader's Digest" by DeWitt Wallace, ‎Lila Acheson Wallace, Vol. 56, p. 18, January 1950.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Business, Scrapbooking, Monday Motivation

Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Song, Laughter, Land, Daily Business

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

- Donald Antrim

source: Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

topic: Beautiful, People, Alive, Daily Business

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

- Epictetus

topic: Thinking, Trying, Watches, Daily Business

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

- James Anthony Froude

source: James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

topic: Reflection, Clouds, Long, Daily Business

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.65, Discovery House

topic: Daily Business

The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare

- Eduardo Ermita

topic: Lying, Hard Work, Rumor, Needlework, Daily Business

Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Exercise, Government, Limits, Daily Business, Documents