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Business Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate – which is why Mitt Romney’s political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.”
Camille Paglia
2.
“Hollywood, America’s greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.”
Camille Paglia
3.
“When I have business on hand I think it is better to have it done quickly.”
J.P. Morgan
4.
“I’m not in Wall Street for my health.”
J.P. Morgan
5.
“Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.”
J.P. Morgan
6.
“I’ll do business with anyone, but I’ll only go sailing with gentlemen.”
J.P. Morgan
7.
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”
John D. Rockefeller
8.
“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.”
John D. Rockefeller
9.
“It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.”
John D. Rockefeller
10.
“I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
John D. Rockefeller
11.
“The best business in the world is a well-run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.”
John D. Rockefeller
12.
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
John D. Rockefeller
13.
“Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.”
John D. Rockefeller
14.
“The major fortunes in America have been made in land.”
John D. Rockefeller
15.
“We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”
John D. Rockefeller
16.
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”
John D. Rockefeller
17.
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.”
John D. Rockefeller
18.
“The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.”
John D. Rockefeller
19.
“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”
John D. Rockefeller
20.
“Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”
John D. Rockefeller
21.
“Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he’s got to keep running or bust!”
John D. Rockefeller
22.
“You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise – the more successful, the greater the prejudice.”
John D. Rockefeller
23.
“The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.”
John D. Rockefeller
24.
“Competition is a sin.”
John D. Rockefeller
25.
“I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.”
John D. Rockefeller
26.
“Money is a way of keeping COUNT on how well you’re doing in business.”
John D. Rockefeller
27.
“Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.”
Andrew Carnegie
28.
“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
29.
“The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks.”
Andrew Carnegie
30.
“One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.”
Andrew Carnegie
31.
“While the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”
Andrew Carnegie
32.
“I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends.”
Andrew Carnegie
33.
“The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost.”
Andrew Carnegie
34.
“Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.”
Andrew Carnegie
35.
“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”
Andrew Carnegie
36.
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie
37.
“The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.”
Andrew Carnegie
38.
“The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.”
Andrew Carnegie
39.
“Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.”
Andrew Carnegie
40.
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.”
Andrew Carnegie
41.
“That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.”
Andrew Carnegie
42.
“Steel is prince or pauper.”
Andrew Carnegie
43.
“Pioneering don’t pay.”
Andrew Carnegie
44.
“There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it.”
Andrew Carnegie
45.
“Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.”
Andrew Carnegie
46.
“Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father’s property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: “Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.””
Andrew Carnegie
47.
“Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.”
Andrew Carnegie
48.
“A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.”
Andrew Carnegie
49.
“I can’t afford to pay them any other way.”
Andrew Carnegie
50.
“Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.”
Andrew Carnegie
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