Business Quotes

Business Quotes

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.
~ Andr? 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.
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~ David Sarnoff

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
~ Howard Scott