Business
Quotes on Business
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
Walter Sickert (1860-1942) British artist
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
R. G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another … is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist
Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1 850-1894) Scottish author.
If I see something I like, I buy it; then I try to sell it.
Lord Grade (b. 1906) British film and TV entrepreneur
The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American president
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer
What’s good for the country is good for General Motors, and what’s good for General Motors is good for the country.
Charles Wilson (1890-1961) American industrialist, Secretary of Defense
Free enterprise ended in the United States a good many years ago. Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and drive out the small entrepreneur. In their conglomerate forms, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the legitimacy of the state
Gore Vidal (b. 1925) American novelist
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) French poet
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young (b. 1932) American politician
You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, clergyman
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author
When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) Soviet premier advice to British businessmen
Every crowd has a silver lining.
Phineas T. Barnum (1810-1891) American showman
Half the time when men think they are talking business they are wasting time.
Ed (E. W.) Howe (1853-1937) American journalist, novelist
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman (b. 1912) American economist
Giv’urn’s dead, and Lend’um’s very bad. Nothink for nothink ere, and precious little for sixpence! Punch magazine, 19th century I have always felt that our businessmen, if they had been left to themselves to make a religion, would have turned out something uncommonly like Juju.
Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) British traveler, writer
