1. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell 

2. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. - Abraham Lincoln 

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

4. 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 

5. Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. - Peter Drucker 

6. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison 

7. I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. - Jeff Bezos 

8. Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. - Jack Welch

 9. The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. - Confucius 

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

11. Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. - Walt Disney 

12. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison 

13. When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. - Elon Musk 

14. If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail. - Jeff Bezos 

15. 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. - Adam Smith 

16. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. - W. Clement Stone 

17. More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. - Rose Kennedy 

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

19. I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. - Winston Churchill 

20. Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. - Winston Churchill 

21. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau 

22. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. - Thomas Jefferson 

23. I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs 

24. An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. - Will Rogers 

25. It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. - Will Rogers 

26. If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. - Will Rogers 

27. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. - Khalil Gibran 

28. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford 

29. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. - Henry Ford 

30. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. - Henry Ford 

31. Carpe per diem - seize the check. - Robin Williams 

32. Our favorite holding period is forever. - Warren Buffett 

33. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill 

34. 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 

35. No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. - Niccolo Machiavelli 

36. Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. - Peter Drucker 

37. People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. - Peter Drucker 

38. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. - Peter Drucker 

39. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. - Peter Drucker

40. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. - Peter Drucker 

41. Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. - Bill Gates 

42. When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. - Dwight D. Eisenhower 

43. A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. - Stephen Covey 

44. Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. - Robert Browning 

45. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! - Coco Chanel 

46. Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. - Colin Powell 

47. Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. - Andy Warhol 

48. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. - Andy Warhol 

49. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. - Andy Warhol 

50. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

51. Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Walter Scott 

52. 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 

53. You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place. - Elon Musk 

54. I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company. - Elon Musk 

55. Great companies are built on great products. - Elon Musk 

56. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative. - Elon Musk 

57. If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. - Elon Musk 

58. I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done. - Elon Musk 

59. It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. - Elon Musk 

60. Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product. - Elon Musk 

61. The business of America is business. - Calvin Coolidge 

62. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. - William Wordsworth 

63. There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. - Jeff Bezos 

64. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. - Jeff Bezos 

65. The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' - Jeff Bezos 

66. Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. - Frank Lloyd Wright 

67. Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. - William Arthur Ward 

68. 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 

69. We're all working together; that's the secret. - Sam Walton 

70. And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. - Andrew Carnegie 

71. No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. - Andrew Carnegie 

72. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben 

73. In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 

74. It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. - Isaac Asimov 

75. Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. - W. Edwards Deming 

76. Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. - Kin Hubbard 

77. Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. - Henry Ward Beecher 

78. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Paul Tournier 

79. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

 80. Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce

 81. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. - Thomas Carlyle 

82. We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. - Alexis de Tocqueville 

83. Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. - W. Clement Stone 

84. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. - Robert H. Schuller 

85. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. - Robert H. Schuller 

86. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss. - Lee Iacocca 

87. The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. - David Ogilvy 

88. If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative. - David Ogilvy 

89. Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. - David Ogilvy 

90. 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 

91. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. - Mary Kay Ash 

92. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. - Mary Kay Ash 

93. I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. - Jennifer Aniston 

94. When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. - Robert Kiyosaki 

95. No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. - Orison Swett Marden 

96. Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. - Tom Peters 

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

98. If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. - Charles Kettering 

99. I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. - Tiger Woods 

100. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. - J. Paul Getty