Business Quotes and sayings


He is the only man who is for ever apologizing for his occupation.
H. L. Mencken

Here’s the rule for bargains: ‘Do other men, for they would do you.’ That’s the true business precept.
Charles Dickens

He’s a businessman. I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Mario Puzo

I have acquired a deep and abiding respect for all those engaged in the difficult business of commerce.
Kenneth Clarke

I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.
Jonathan Swift

If Max gets to Heaven he won’t last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell…after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
H. G. Wells

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
Darryl F. Zanuck

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
James Goldsmith

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn’t be in this business.
Sol Hurok

Good counselors lack no clients.
William Shakespeare

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale

It’s just like having a license to print your own money.
Lord Thomson

People of the same trade seldom meet together but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some diversion to raise prices.
Adam Smith

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
Owen Felltham

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
Aristotle

A business exists to create a customer.
Peter F. Drucker

Pile it high, sell it cheap.
Jack Cohen

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose F. Kennedy

Time is the measure of business.
Francis Bacon, Sr.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen

Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge

The customer is always right.
H. Gordon Selfridge

The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase: ‘And now a word from our sponsor.
Hal Eaton

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
Elwyn Brooks White

Today’s sales should be better than yesterday’s - and worse than tomorrow’s.
Anonymous

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow so that you can skin them again.
Nikita Khrushchev

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    To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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