The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain.
Business Quotes
Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man.
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalistic environment.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment in it.
When I hear artists and authors making fun of business men I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding, When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
The notion that a business is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public use is little more than a fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers.
In business, as most of it is constituted today, a man becomes valuable only as he recognizes the relation of his work to that of his associates. It is the cumulative effort that counts.
