Business Quotes

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.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business.