Business Quotes and sayings

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker

Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith

Who will change old lamps for new ones?…new lamps for old ones?
The Arabian Nights

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick.
Sydney Smith

Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator.
Richard Pratt

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold Geneen

In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
John Egan

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

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
Mark Cuban

No one traveling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.
Thorstein Veblen

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality.
Harold Geneen

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley

The secret to managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Casey Stengel

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

Happiness is a positive cash flow.
Fred Adler

Cut your losses and let your profits run.
American proverb

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.
Tara Hunt

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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.
Anonymous

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