All WILL ROGERS Quotes about “Business”

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
“No man is great if he thinks he is.”
“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.”
“This would be a great world to dance in if we didnâ€™t have to pay the fiddler.”
“There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again”
“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
“You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.”
“Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.”
“America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.”
“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.”
“It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.”
“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”
“Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.”
“People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.”
“We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.”
“Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.”
“President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.”
“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”
“Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions lost. There ought to be some form of guardianship for people that buy all this junk. Education won't do it. The buyers are the ones we have educated up till they are just smart enough to fall for everything that comes along.”
“Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.”
“Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.”
“Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.”
“You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.”

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