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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.

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

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.

Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.

Business is a lot like a game of tennis — those who serve well usually end up winning

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man has a moral right to withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve conditions within his sphere.

criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

Live together like brothers, and do business like strangers.

If you can build a business up big enough, it is respectable.