Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Business

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Motivational, Fathers Day

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

• If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Business, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.501, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Honor is better than honors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Integrity, Honor

• That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Encouragement, Business

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1330, Jazzybee Verlag

• Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.200, Fordham Univ Press

• One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Needs, Company

• Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Character, Tree

• I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Success, Hurt

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.358, Library of America

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