Business Quotes

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

The key to executive success is the ability to inspire teamwork.

Business will get better, but we won’t know when it does.

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

The good Paymaster is Lord of another man’s Purse.

The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively – that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business… the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the […]

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 […]