There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

25.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

26.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

27.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

28.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

29.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

30.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

31.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

32.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

33.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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.

Warhol, Andy

35.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

36.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

37.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

38.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

39.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

40.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

41.

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

Ford, Henry

42.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

44.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

45.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

46.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

47.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!