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Andy Warhol2 quotes
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol · 1975Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. — Andy Warhol · 1975Marshall Field2 quotes
The customer is always right. — Marshall Field · 1905Give the lady what she wants! — Marshall Field · 1906Warren Buffett2 quotes
In the business world... The rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett · 1992It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. — Warren Buffett · 1990Abraham Cahan1 quote
The business world contains plenty of successful men who have no brains. — Abraham Cahan · 1917Akio Morita1 quote
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management. — Akio Morita · 1986Andrew Grove1 quote
Only the paranoid survive. — Andrew Grove · 1994Bill Gates1 quote
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. — Bill Gates · 1999Calvin Coolidge1 quote
The chief business of the American people is business. — Calvin Coolidge · 1925Charles Dickens1 quote
Here’s the rule for bargains—“Do other men, for they would do you.” That’s the true business precept. — Charles Dickens · 1843Christian Nestell Bovee1 quote
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war! — Christian Nestell Bovee · 1862Cornelius Vanderbilt1 quote
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. — Cornelius Vanderbilt · 1853Daniel Defoe1 quote
Pleasure is a thief to business. — Daniel Defoe · 1726Donald Trump1 quote
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. — Donald Trump · 1987Henry Ford1 quote
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. — Henry Ford · 1919Herodotus1 quote
Now haste is ever the parent of failure. — Herodotus · 450 BCJ. Paul Getty1 quote
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. — J. Paul Getty · 1965Milton Friedman1 quote
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman · 1983R.H. Tawney1 quote
Politics grease the wheels of business. — R.H. Tawney · 1958Soichiro Honda1 quote
If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are. — Soichiro Honda · 1982Sollozzo1 quote
I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman. Blood is a big expense. — Sollozzo · 1972William Wrigley Jr.1 quote
Business is built by men who care-care enough to disagree, fight it out to a finish, get facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary. — William Wrigley Jr. · 1931