Business Quotes by Will Rogers

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

— Will Rogers

I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.

— Will Rogers

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

— Will Rogers

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

— Will Rogers

No man is great if he thinks he is.

— Will Rogers

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

— Will Rogers

A company is known by the people it keeps.

— Will Rogers

America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.

— Will Rogers

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on…

— Will Rogers

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

— Will Rogers

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.

— Will Rogers

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

— Will Rogers

Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.

— Will Rogers

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

— Will Rogers

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some…

— Will Rogers

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it…

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If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending…

— Will Rogers

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so…

— Will Rogers

Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything…

— Will Rogers

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So…

— Will Rogers

Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about…

— Will Rogers

President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over…

— Will Rogers

Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only…

— Will Rogers

America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never…

— Will Rogers

Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions…

— Will Rogers

Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it…

— Will Rogers

Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my…

— Will Rogers

We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or…

— Will Rogers

Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful…

— Will Rogers

Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax…

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the…

— Will Rogers

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

— Will Rogers

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.

— Will Rogers

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

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This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

— Will Rogers

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

— Will Rogers

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.

— Will Rogers