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In the business world, everyone is paid in two
coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will
come later. ~Harold Geneen
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry
Ford
Business is a combination of war and sport. ~André Maurois
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying
customers. ~John Egan
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to
be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without
individual responsibility. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the
money. It is the product that pays the wages. ~Henry Ford, 1922,
also sometimes quoted as "It is the customer that pays the wages"
Hire character. Train skill. ~Peter Schutz
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to
poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant
business. ~Henry David Thoreau
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that
automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the
efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient
operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~Bill Gates
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be
sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ~Robert Louis
Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot
of money because I pay good wages. ~Robert Bosch
In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet
certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they
take Business Poetry. ~Dave Barry
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
~David Sarnoff
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not
sufficient capital to form a corporation. ~Howard Scott
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ~Elting
E. Morison
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can
measure values. ~Author Unknown
For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to
improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in
favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in
such a system: Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about
capitalism
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
~Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought
People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give
something to that you can't please. ~Will Rogers
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through
honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to
gain, those you deal with should gain as well. ~Alan Greenspan
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their
business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. ~Smiley
Blanton
Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without
problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business
everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by
providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. ~Bob
Parsons
Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive
who is a competent benevolent dictator. ~Richard Pratt
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see
how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give
for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ~Henry Ford
The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always
personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are
very personal. ~Mark Cuban
It is an immutable law in business that words are words,
explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only
performance is reality. ~Harold Geneen
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and
he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial
shortage of fish and he will eat steak. ~Jay Leno
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man
understands what will sell. ~Confucius
It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what
they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
~Malcolm Forbes
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may
practise it. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business
in the country. ~Norman Cousins
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is
robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to
another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is
business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with
a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be
doubled without danger. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face,
especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you
are a housewife, architect or engineer. ~Dale Carnegie
A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the
wounded. ~Author Unknown
It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how
many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care
about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is
learn from them and those around you because... All that matters in
business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you
how lucky you are. ~Mark Cuban
Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the
goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money
belonging to E. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's World Book, 1906
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right
and the budget is big enough. ~Joseph E. Levine
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Quotations about Business