Business Quotes

I will certainly not sell my stake in Tata Motors and Tata Steel, and never have, no matter how much I was criticised.

Business need not be a merciless, cutthroat affair.

I have always looked at business as an opportunity to make a difference in people's lives.

In any business, the time to engage in philanthropy is when you are at your best.

Football's a difficult business, and aren't they prima donnas? But it's a wonderful game.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.