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"
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
Hire character. Train skill. ~Peter Schutz
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
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
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. ~Smiley Blanton
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 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, "The Mission," Chapter 2
A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded. ~Author Unknown
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 |
