Business Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

— Demosthenes

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

— Mark Twain

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

— Anonymous

Entrepreneurs believe that profit is what matters most in a new enterprise. But profit is secondary. Cash flow matters most.

— Peter Drucker

Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified companies in…

— James O'Toole

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

— Samuel Johnson

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun…

— Andrew Carnegie

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as…

— Jack Welch

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

— Sextus Propertius

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

— Alan Sugar

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve…

— J. Willard Marriott