Business Quotes

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Thomas J. Peters

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Sir Matthew Hale

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Theodore Leavitt

My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.

J. Paul Getty

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Joseph Addison

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

Joseph Addison

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Millard Drexler

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something - and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Harold Coffin, quoted in The Pet

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Anthony J. F. O'Reilly

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Walter Lippmann

After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.

Nelson Piquet

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.

Thomas Frank

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.

Donald Trump

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.

Martin Feldstein

Location, location, location.

William Dillard

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

E. Joseph Cossman

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

Cat Stevens

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb