Business Quotes

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

A businessman who reads “Business Week” is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

Never shrink from anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.

Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues’ initials on ’em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.