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.
~ Andr? 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
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
~ Howard Scott