Business Quotes

If you’re gonna do business with a religious son of a bitch. Get it in writing. His word ain’t worth shit, not with the good Lord teaching him how to fuck you on the deal.

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

The customer’s always right. The son-of-a-bitch is probably rich so smile with all your might.

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 […]

I understand small business growth. I was one. (New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000)

American economic history is a story of booms fading into resentment. It is not so much a business cycle as a cycle of public sentiment, alternating between times of optimism and times of pessimism. Between, if you must, decades of greed and, if you will, decades of envy.

Small business owners like Joe may have problems passing their business off to a child or somebody they choose to pass their business off of.(St. Louis, Missouri, Jan. 22, 2003)

To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.