Quotes About Business

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal superabundance.

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

There is only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits without deception or fraud.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

You build on cost and you borrow on value.