Quotes

Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.
-Anonymous Author

However successful a man may be in his own business, if he turns from that and engages ill a business which he don't understand, he is like Samson when shorn of his locks his strength has departed, and he becomes like other men.
-P. T. Barnum

He profits most who serves best.
-Arthur F. Sheldon

Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you." That's the true business precept.
-Anonymous Author

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
-Elbert Hubbard

Business makes a man as well as tries him.
-English proverb

We all, according as our business prospers or fails, are elated or cast down.
-Terence

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
-Henry Ford

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
-Joseph Addison

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
-Gerald Stanley Lee

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
-Steve Ballmer

I think that people have the idea of an entrepreneur being the sort of stereotype person who treads all over everybody and bullies their way to the top. There certainly are people like that, and they have managed to get away with it, but they generally get their come-uppance in the end.
-Richard Branson

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-Benjamin Franklin

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
-Blaine Lee

Business? It's quite simple: it's other people's money.
-Alexandre Dumas

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.
-E M Kelly

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
-John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
-John Erksine

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work
-Kahlil Gibran

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
-Scott McNealy

Nothing holds a company back - and the individuals working in it - more than a lack of interest in positive change. You cannot stand still: you either go backwards or forwards.
-John Adair

Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
-Bible

What I must understand is why someone will continue to get out of bed in the morning once they have all the money they could want. Do they love the business, or do they love the money?
-Warren Buffett

All businesses operate below their true potential. That is unavoidable, given the fallibility of human beings.
-Robert Heller

Business today consists in persuading crowds.
-Gerald Stanley Lee

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
-Andrew Carnegie

All businesses operate below their true potential. That is unavoidable, given the fallibility of human beings.
-Robert Heller

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

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
-Sinclair Lewis

Business is a lot like a game of tennis - those who serve well usually end up winning
-Anonymous Author

Business has continued to be more interested in thinking, in general, than any other sector of society. The explanation for this is because there is a reality test. There is a bottom line. There are sales figures and profit figures. There are results.
-Edward de Bono

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
-B C Forbes

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
-Charles F Kettering

Few people do business well who do nothing else.
-Chesterfield

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.
-Peter Drucker

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
-John Greenleaf Whittier

The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.
-Sir Arthur Helps

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
-Sir Edward Appleton