Business Quotes

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Never argue with a profit.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

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

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Business is in itself a power.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.