Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.
Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
Business is a lot like a game of tennis â those who serve well usually end up winning
Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.
Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.
If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .
Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung not heard; Though your life from youth to age Passes is a narrow cage.