Famous Quotes on Business
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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. ~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"
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. ~David Sarnoff
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~Edward R. Murrow
Make the workmanship surpass the materials. ~Ovid
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
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. ~Alan Greenspan
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. ~Smiley Blanton
Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. ~Bob Parsons
Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator. ~Richard Pratt
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 NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. ~Mark Cuban
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. ~Harold Geneen
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will...
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