Business Quotes

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on ’em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

A customer is the most important visitor in our premises. He is not dependent on us, we are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work, he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider to our business, he is part of it. We are not doing him a favor […]

A business exists to create a customer.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.