Famous Quotes - Tags - Business And Commerce

  • 1. Never give anything away for nothing.
    2. Never give more than you have to give (always... More
  • 3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
    1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land:... More
  • A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. More
  • A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an... More
  • A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not... More
  • A good many have been thrown out on their broad capital bases. More
  • A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars. More
  • After all, the chief business of the American people is business. More
  • An haberdasshere and a carpenter,
    A webbe, a dyere, and a tapycer,
    And they were clothed... More
  • Apparently they have reached their destination.
    It would be hard to say what brought them... More
  • Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business... More
  • Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.... Making money is art and working is... More
  • Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and... More
  • Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. More
  • Business? it’s quite simple: it’s other people’s money. More
  • But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense, More
  • Colonel “Bat” Guano: Okay, I’m going to get your money for you. But if you don’t get the... More
  • Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
    The signet of its all-enslaving power,
    Upon a... More
  • Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both,... More
  • Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. More
  • Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like... More
  • Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. More
  • Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an... More
  • For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. More
  • For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial... More
  • Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. More
  • Gratitude among friends is like credit among tradesmen: it keeps business up, and maintains... More
  • Great is the hand that holds dominion over
    Man by a scribbled name. More
  • Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom... More
  • Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. More
  • I deal with farmers, things like dips and feed. More
  • I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an... More
  • I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is... More
  • If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we’ll all be plucking... More
  • If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in... More
  • In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. More
  • In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity. More
  • In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of... More
  • In every naked negro of those thousands, they saw a future customer. More
  • In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
    Is offering too little and asking too... More
  • In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
    Is offering too little and asking too much. More
  • International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is... More
  • It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to... More
  • It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial... More
  • It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any... More
  • It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. More
  • It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then... More
  • I’m responding to the will of the people. More
  • Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to... More
  • Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to... More
  • Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,
    And think perchance they’ll sell; if... More
  • May I suggest Ethiopian? More
  • Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an... More
  • Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion,... More
  • Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities... More
  • Nature seems to have taken a particular Care to disseminate her Blessings among the different... More
  • No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do... More
  • No nation was ever ruined by trade. More
  • Of one thing I can assure you with comparative certainty, whoever wins, Europe will be... More
  • Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent... More
  • One of the necessary qualifications of an efficient business man in these days of industrial... More
  • Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his... More
  • Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect... More
  • Povert is hateful good, and, as I gesse,
    A ful greet bringer out of bisiness; More
  • Remember that it’s never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the... More
  • Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly... More
  • Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more... More
  • The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the... More
  • The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined... More
  • The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities,... More
  • The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote... More
  • The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and... More
  • The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to... More
  • The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose... More
  • The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who... More
  • The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain... More
  • The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions... More
  • The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. More
  • The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... is common to all men, and... More
  • The responsible business men of this country put their shoulders to the wheel. It is in response... More
  • The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a... More
  • The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but... More
  • The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people... More
  • There is no such thing as a free lunch. More
  • They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal; not they who, the greater... More
  • This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations... More
  • To business that we love we rise betime,
    And go to’t with delight. More
  • To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first... More
  • United Fruit... United Thieves Company... it’s a monopoly ... if you won’t take their prices... More
  • Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his... More
  • We have two kinds of “conference.” One is that to which the office boy refers when he tells... More
  • What’s good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa. More
  • When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can... More

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