Business Quotes

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

He that thinks his business below him will always be above his business.

The manufacturer, who waits in the woods for the world to beat a path to his door, is a great optimist. But the manufacturer who shows his “mouse trap” to the world keeps the smoke coming out of his chimney.

A merchants happiness hangs upon chance, winds, and waves.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

When the tiger kills, the jackal profits.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

He who wants to barter, usually knows what is best for him.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

Business before pleasure.