Quotes About Business

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it.

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

Cowboy boots with a suit? You're a rough, tough businessman. Chaps with a bow tie? You're in the rough, tough man business.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart.