Business is a combination of war and sport. – André Maurois
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
It is not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages. – Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes quoted as “It is the customer that pays the wag
Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. – Henry David Thoreau
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. – Bill Gates
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881
I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
Professionalism is a frame of mind, not a paycheck. – Cecil Castle
In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry. – Dave Barry
Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man. – Author Unknown
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. – Edward R. Murrow
Make the workmanship surpass the materials. – Ovid
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. – Elting E. Morison
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. – Author Unknown
For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’Reilly, about capitalism
People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please. – Will Rogers
Our marketing strategy is driven by the customer experience, not by “growth hawking.” We believe companies should be about fewer games, fewer hoops, and more value. We feel like open content speaks to that. – Gregory Ciotti, “Why We’re Opting Out of Opt-in Resources” (Help Scout, ww
