A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Had there been a computer a hundred years ago, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.
The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Business is more exciting than any game.
A company is judged by the president it keeps.
Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary, double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.
After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.