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When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don’t consider the bloody ROI.
Tim Cookborn 1960Apple shareholder meeting (28 February 2014), as reported by The Mac Observer
I don’t think business should only deal in commercial things. Business, to me, is nothing more than a collection of people. If people have values, then companies should.
Tim Cookborn 1960CNBC: “Apple’s Tim Cook shares a rule that leaders should live by” (26 June 2018)
- Morality
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors (1925).
- America
Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
- America
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Charity
The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
Peter Drucker1909–2005MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 455
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 41
- Economics
Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.
Dinesh D'Souzaborn 1961America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
- Economics
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
Henry Ford1863–1947
Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.
Henry Ford1863–1947My Life and Work (1922), p. 72. Chapter IV, : Remark about the Model T in 1909
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15
- Economics
- Freedom