Business Quotes

When… you increase your business to a very great extent… the man at the head has a diminishing knowledge of the facts, and… a diminishing opportunity of exercising a careful judgment upon them.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

The market is the place set apart where men may deceive each other.

Mere money-making cannot be regarded as the legitimate end (of business) since with the conduct of business human happiness or misery is inextricably interwoven.

Everyone thirsteth after gaine.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.

Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

It must be remembered that all trade is and must be in a sense selfish.

The playthings of our elders are called business.

Few companies would have reached the going concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders. Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet will go right through them without hurt or harm.