Business Quotes

The notion that a business is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public use is little more than a fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers.

In business, as most of it is constituted today, a man becomes valuable only as he recognizes the relation of his work to that of his associates. It is the cumulative effort that counts.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

The most enlightening judicial policy is to let people manage their own business in their own way.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (Comments on price increases proposed by U.S. Steel)

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Whenever you’re sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long underwear. That’s the way I always operated in business.

The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.

Regarded as a means, (the businessman) is tolerable; as an end, he is not so satisfactory.