Famous Quotes

"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 on Business

More quotes about Business

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

  Mark Twain on Business

• "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

  Albert Einstein on Business

• "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

  Colin Powell on Business

• "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

  Dale Carnegie on Business

• "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

  Abraham Lincoln on Business

More quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville

• "Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."

• "The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."

• "Life is to be entered upon with courage."

• "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

• "Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."