Business Quotes

When friends do business, there is no need for contracts. Unfortunately, there are no friends in business.

Make business decisions with your heart and you end up with heart disease.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man’s nobler faculties.

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal.

Most of those who say so easily that this is our way – do not, I am convinced, understand the fundamental changes of attitude, new disciplines, revised legal structures, unaccustomed limitations on activity, are all necessary if we are to plan. This amounts, in fact, to the abandonment, finally, of laissez faire. It amounts, practically, […]

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.