Business & Career Quotes

"Every morning 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

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. 

Max Amsterdam      

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. 

Oscar Wilde   

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   

Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man’s dollar.

Edward H. Harriman

You have to earn money the hard way. Because no one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.

Gordon Wu

I don’t care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I’d want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I’d want to be the best at whatever I do.

Branch Rickey         

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Benjamin Franklin    

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. 

Louis Agassiz