Use Business Quotes to Learn Business Strategy

This is a collection of evergreen quotes by famous poets and authors of earlier centuries. Though they were not intended to be business quotes, I have interpreted them in new light to see what business management principles can be learned from them.

Articles & Resources Sort By : Guide Picks | Alphabetical | Recent Up a category Hitch your wagon to a star. Little strokes fell great oaks. Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Achilles absent was Achilles still. 27 more Articles & Resources below

Articles & Resources more from your guide Hear ye not the hum, Of mighty workings? And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar’d. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. And he is oft the wisest man, Who is not wise at all. The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The silent organ loudest chants, The master’s requiem. It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop, Than when we soar. The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near... The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that... All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to ... The paths to the house I seek to make, But leave to those to come... Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods... But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning... And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron’s serpent... Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who... The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung, To their first fault... Jove strikes the Titans down, Not when they set about their... Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter... It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is... But how can he expect that others should, Build for him, sow for... A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe... I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures...