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 | Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 8 likes |
 | Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 7 likes |
 | My law in business is to be the one buying not selling. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 4 likes |
 | I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | Boldness in Business is the first, second, and third thing. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Business? It's quite simple: it's other people's money. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 4 likes |
 | 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. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. — Ibn Khaldoun, 1332-1406, Arab historian & sage 4 likes |
 | A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 3 likes |
 | You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 3 likes |
| The secret in business is knowing something nobody else knows. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 3 likes |
 | Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
 | The business of America is business. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 3 likes |
| Employers only handle the money; it is the customer who pays the wages. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 3 likes |
 | When I hear artists... making fun of businessmen I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks. — Anonymous 2 likes |
| There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
 | Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. — Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian 2 likes |
 | Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 2 likes |
 | If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
| Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| 1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan? — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer's point of view. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
 | I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
| Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | The social responsibility of business is to increase its profit. — Milton Friedman, 1912-2006, American economist 2 likes |
 | Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 2 likes |
| My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes |
 | If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy. |
 | Generous people make bad merchants. |
 | The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. |
| Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. |
 | Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
 | Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward. |
Funny Quotes
 | A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. — Howard Scott, 1890-1970, American engineer 11 likes |
| A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
Stupid Quotes
 | The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for “entrepreneur”. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 7 likes |
Proverbs
 | Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that? — from the film Working Girl (1988) 5 likes |
 | Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel. — from the film The Godfather, Part II (1974) 3 likes |
