Quotes
Quotes about Business
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
You can't run a business without taking risks.
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
If you're not a white male, consider sales seriously. Most employers, regardless of how sexist or racist they may be, will pay for any sales they can get. And they care little for the color or gender of the person who brings that business to the firm. Most will be glad to get the business even if it comes from a green, bisexual Martian.
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
Business is more exciting than any game.
Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.
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.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.
The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, -Unknown.
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
