Winston Churchill on Business Quotes

"Among our Socialist opponents there is great confusion. Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is—the strong and willing horse that pulls the whole cart along. The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953-1959, London: Cassell, (1961), p. 324, Woodford, Essex, (1959, 29 September)"

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 49, ISBN 1579127215"

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful."

"It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge."

"The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

"One always tends to overstate a case when one is very much in earnest."

"Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you."

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver."

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

"Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils. A Free Parliament—look at that—a Free Parliament is odious to the Socialist doctrinaire. Broadcast for the 1945 general election (4 June 1945), quoted in Martin Gilbert, 'Never Despair': Winston S. Churchill, 1945–1965 (1988), p. 33"

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"There is no such thing as a good tax."

"Lord Moran, Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965 (London: Constable & Company, 1966), p. 167."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. As quoted in the United States of America Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 105th Congress Second Session, Government Printing Office, Vol. 144, Part 4, p. 5738"

"The enthronement in office of a Socialist Government will be a serious national misfortune such as has usually befallen great States only on the morrow of defeat in war. It will delay the return of prosperity; it will check enterprise and impair credit; it will open a period of increasing political confusion and disturbance. Letter to a correspondent shortly before the Labour Party formed its first government (17 January 1924), quoted in The Times (18 January 1924), p. 14"

"Let them [Socialists] abandon the utter fallacy, the grotesque, erroneous, fatal blunder of believing that by limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false equality... they will increase the well-being of the world. Winston S. Churchill, His Complete Speeches 1897-1963, Vol. IV, p. 3821, (21 January 1926)"

"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential."

"When I see the present Socialist Government denouncing capitalism in all its forms, mocking with derision and contempt the tremendous free enterprise capitalist system on which the mighty production of the United States is founded, I cannot help feeling that as a nation we are not acting honourably or even honestly. Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 124, (1948, 10 July) Woodford, Essex, Europe, 374)"

"The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities."

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 168, ISBN 1579127215"

"We may indeed ask ourselves how it is that capitalism and free enterprise enable the United States not only to support its vast and varied life and needs, but also to supply these enormous sums to lighten the burden of others in distress. Churchill By Himself: The Definitive Collections of Quotations, ed. Richard Langworth, 2008, p. 124 (1948, 21 April)"