A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
~ Henry Ford

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
~ Ludwig Erhard

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
~ Harold Coffin

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.
~ Alexander Herzen

A hard thing about business is minding your own
~ Anonymous

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
~ Harvey S. Firestone

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
~ Gerald Stanley Lee

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
~ Anonymous

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.
~ Anonymous

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
~ P. D. Armour

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.
~ Roger Smith

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
~ Paul Hawken

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
~ Andy Warhol

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
~ Frank Dane

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
~ Anonymous

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.
~ Peter F. Drucker

Business is a combination of war and sport.
~ Andre Maurois

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.
~ Anonymous

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.
~ General Robert E. Woods