Business is a combination of war and sport. André Maurois
The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis
You don’t hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. Thomas J. Watson
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Harold Geneen
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. Norman Augustine
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. Aristotle Onassis
Business is more exciting than any game. Lord Beaverbrook
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. Aaron Burr
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. Andrew Carnegie
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. Henry Ford
You can’t run a business or anything else on a theory. Harold S. Geneen
Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it. Thomas J Watson
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Donald Trump
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. Ross Perot
People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates
No one ever went broke by saying no too often. Harvey B. MacKay
You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. Rupert Murdoch
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks. It is not possible for an executive to hold himself aloof from anything. No business, no matter what its size, can be called safe until it has been forced to learn economy and rigidly to measure values of men and materials. Harvey S Firestone
Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Harvey S Firestone
Thought, not money, is the real business capital. Harvey S Firestone
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or ‘get rich’ in business by being a conformist. John Paul Getty
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
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. Ralph Nader
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. Paul Samuelson
In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavourable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet. Lord Chandos (Oliver Lyttelton)
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. Business is a combination of war and sport. André Maurois
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen