Business Quotes

corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

The successful business man sometimes makes his money by ability and experience; but he generally makes it by mistake.

Talk of nothing but business, and despatch that business quickly.

The big top is a lot like big business. You spend your day juggling, walking a tightrope, coping with clowns and cleaning up after elephants.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types never accept defeat.

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.