Business Quote by P. T. Barnum

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

— Brenda Ueland

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

People in the business world lament economic resources wasted on unsustainable development projects and what they see as activists' naive failure to grasp the…

— Craig Kielburger

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very…

— Abhijit Banerjee

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

“Certain leaders and politicians intentionally maintain conditions of poverty and hardship to secure their own power. Instead of implementing lasting solutions, they exploit people’s…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

— Pope Leo XIII

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

— Ernest Hemingway

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him,…

— Thomas Carlyle