Quotes about business
69 quotes from 46 people
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain1835–1910A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), Ch. 22The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
Peter Drucker1909–2005MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 455There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37Any 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 1909When a man is trying to sell you something, don’t imagine he is that polite all the time.
E. W. Howe1853–1937Country Town Sayings (1911), p. 34.The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Larkin Smith (1809)
Stephen Colbertborn 1964The Colbert Report (14 May 2008)- Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 41
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part I, Ch. 1
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview with Inc. Magazine for its “The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award” (1 April 1989)
William S. Burroughs1914–1997“Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs”, written in 1956, first published in The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2 (January 1957), p. 1 and later used as footnotes in Naked Lunch
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Tatler, No. 224 (14 September 1710)There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
