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Whether you're procrastinating on your Round 2 MBA applications or just looking for a little business inspiration, check out these business quotes from some of the most famous -- and notorious -- business leaders of yesterday and today (plus other important people like Willy Wonka and Jay Z). Let us know in the comments which quotes you like best -- or if we left out your personal favorite, let us know that too!
Warren Buffet:
"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute."
Mark Zuckerberg:
"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
Don Corleone:
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
Rupert Murdoch:
"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."
Donald Trump:
"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable."
Willy Wonka:
"A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men."
Howard Hughes:
“I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”
George Soros:
"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."
Jay Z:
"Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself."
Walt Disney:
"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
J.P. Morgan:
"No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking."
Steve Forbes:
"There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result."
Andrew Carnegie:
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
Oprah Winfrey:
"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
Jack Welch:
"Change before you have to."
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
Michael Corleone:
“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
Tony Montana:
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
George Jung:
"So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door."
Henry Ford:
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Michael Bloomberg
"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
Frank Lucas:
"The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work... family... never forgetting where we came from."
"The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room."
Montgomory Burns:
"What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man?"
Bill Gates:
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
