top of page
Exlpore more Business quotes

"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."

"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."

"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions."

"You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other."

"I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business."
Explore more quotes by Edna Ferber

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."

"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."

"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."

"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."

"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."
bottom of page