Best Business Book Quotes

#1. The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is rich with rare insights into how men really see women in the workplace-and how with a few simple adjustments you can even the playing field.

Lois P Frankel

#2. When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Daniel Goleman

#3. Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

Brian Tracy

#4. Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

Ellen Potter

#5. Putting my book down should be the hardest thing my reader has to do that day. Authorship is a merciless business!

Rachel Aaron

#6. The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

Stephen King

#7. All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

Charles Gates Jr.

#8. No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.

Elinor Florence

#9. I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

Zig Ziglar

#10. All my scripts have artistic backgrounds
ballet, concert hall, opera
and all the suspects and corpses are cultured, maybe I'll do one about the rare book business in your honor, do you want to be the murderer or the corpse?

Helene Hanff

#11. Books should, not Business, entertain the Light;
And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

Abraham Cowley

#12. These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

Scott Adams

#13. In Jason Fried's book Rework, he writes that one of the smartest investments a business can make is in hiring great writers, and I completely agree. No

Sophia Amoruso

#14. Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Michael Moore

#15. I did not want to write just another business book.

Peter Thiel

#16. In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.

Sophie Kinsella

#17. I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

Isla Fisher

#18. Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

Steve Brown

#19. These are the Disciplines that can change everything!

Mark Mullins

#20. the title of our book lightly, either. Let Go To Grow is all about our vision of the future of business, its implications, and our best practices. It's about the future of your business too. We begin the book with some sobering marketplace realities and offer a set of management principles

Linda S. Sanford

#21. I feel like you can't judge a book by its cover, that's always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.

Andre Hueston Mack

#22. Today's businesses can't just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and out and from top to bottom. Ultimately, that is the goal of this book: to harness the power of being a social business to become the most highly recommended organization in your industry/category/niche.

Paul M. Rand

#23. When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Flannery O'Connor

#24. McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#25. I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

George Whitman

#26. Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.

Cassandra Clare

#27. One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

Bob Mayer

#28. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm

Suze Orman

#29. I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'

Dick Van Dyke

#30. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

Ronnie Apteker

#31. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Amah Lambert

#32. When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Edward Abbey

#33. On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

Rob Walton

#34. I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

R.A. Salvatore

#35. My favorite business book of all time is experience.

Noah Kagan

#36. McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

Pauline Kael

#37. The apartment was tiny, but neat: the bed was made; a few books (business books and a self-help book, all in English and all from the library) were stacked on a nightstand.

Patrick Hoffman

#38. I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.

Ezra Taft Benson

#39. The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

Michael Ben Zehabe

#40. Consider reading an inspirational book or listen to a podcast every day. You will maintain a library of positive thoughts in your head.

Timi Nadela

#41. You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Jessamyn West

#42. I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

Ronnie Apteker