Quotes About Business

As Rockefeller moved into retirement, his wealth was accumulating at an astonishing rate.

ad John D. Rockefeller died in 1902, at the outset of the Tarbell series, he would be known today almost exclusively as a narrow man of swashbuckling brilliance in business

I never came into contact with any class of men so smart and able as they are in their business.

whereas Rockefeller brought a rational spirit to the business, and this counted among his greatest contributions.

He was receiving about $3 million yearly in Standard Oil dividends (more than $50 million in 1996 dollars) and redirecting that into a vast portfolio of outside investments that made him a one-man holding company.

By 1907, however, they had exploited enough legal loopholes to become highly speculative.

Rockefeller embarked on a buying binge such as the industry had never seen.

With $24 million now invested outside the oil and gas business, he held sizable stakes in 16 railroad companies, 9 real-estate firms, 6 steel companies, 6 steamship companies, 9 banks and financial houses, and even 2 orange groves.

Of the 35,000 Standard shares, Rockefeller held nearly 9,000, or three times the amount of Flagler, Harkness, Pratt, or Payne.)

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Sometimes I think that this whole thing, this whole business of a world that keeps waking itself up and bothering to go on every day, is necessary only as a manifestation of the intolerable. The intolerable is like H.G. Wells's invisible man, it has to put on clothes in order to be seen. So it dresses itself up in a world. Possibly it looks in a mirror but my imagination doesn't go that far.

I love all these people; they have so much passion. They're a little bit crazy, but they use their craziness for their business. They live right.

talked dolefully about his job—he sold antiques in a shop owned

By this same post, I am delegating a close friend of mine, Irving Wiesel, to visit your place of business and ferret out the truth. You can lay your cards on the table with Wiesel or not, as you see fit. When he finishes with you, you will have neither cards nor table.

In a Bombay street an urchin was distributing business cards. He took one. 'Are you alcohol?' it read. 'We can help. Call this number for liquor home delivery.' Excellent business model, he thought.

NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community are endless.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.