Famous Business Quotes

A blind bargain.
-- Unattributed Author

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

A business with an income at its heels.
-- William Cowper

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
-- Stephen R Covey

A manufacturing district . . . sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.
-- Henry Hallam

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. .
-- Dale Dauten

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
-- Frederick W Smith

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-- Herbert Hoover

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
-- Andrew Carnegie

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

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers .
-- Edgar R Fiedler

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
-- William Feather

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
-- Edward George Earle

Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.
-- Edward George Bulwer

Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
-- Thomas J Watson

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

Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.
-- Lewis E Pierson

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
-- Henry Ford

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.
-- Walter Bagehot

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock