Business Quotes by Mark Twain

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

— Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

— Mark Twain

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

— Mark Twain

“Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”

— Mark Twain

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

— Mark Twain

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

— Mark Twain

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

— Mark Twain

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

— Mark Twain

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

— Mark Twain

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

— Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

— Mark Twain

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and…

— Mark Twain

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with…

— Mark Twain

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done…

— Mark Twain

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet…

— Mark Twain

“Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better…

— Mark Twain

Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they…

— Mark Twain

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I…

— Mark Twain

“It would ’a’ been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on…

— Mark Twain

The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with…

— Mark Twain

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the…

— Mark Twain

“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a…

— Mark Twain

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are…

— Mark Twain

“In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet…

— Mark Twain

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets…

— Mark Twain

“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They…

— Mark Twain

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we…

— Mark Twain

“Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn't have led Christ up on a high…

— Mark Twain

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

— Mark Twain

“men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This”

— Mark Twain

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

— Mark Twain

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

— Mark Twain

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

— Mark Twain

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

— Mark Twain

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows…

— Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it…

— Mark Twain

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the…

— Mark Twain