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Business Quotes — 39 Business Quotes, Each Checked to Its Source

There is no greater delusion than that low wages mean high profits. No labour is so dear as cheap labour, and the labour which costs nothing is the dearest of all.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 22 February 1906

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

James H. Boren

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

Winston Churchill · Churchill on large enterprises.

It is always better, except in the hierarchy of military discipline, to express opinions and wishes rather than to give orders.

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)

Exports are only the steam over the boiling water in the kettle. They are only that part of the iceberg that glitters above the surface of the ocean.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 28 October 1947

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Dean Acheson

Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is—the strong and willing horse that pulls the whole cart along.

Winston Churchill · Woodford, Essex, 29 September 1959

The elimination of the profit motive and of self-interest as a practical guide in the myriad transactions of daily life will restrict, paralyse and destroy British ingenuity, thrift, contrivance and good housekeeping at every stage in our life and production.

Winston Churchill · Belle Vue, Manchester, 6 December 1947

There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Brendan Behan

But this grotesque idea of managing vast enterprises by centralized direction from London can only lead to bankruptcy and ruin.

Winston Churchill · Perth, 28 May 1948

Everyone should do a good day’s work and be accountable for some definite task; and then they do not make trouble for trouble’s sake or to cut a figure.

Winston Churchill · The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948)

There is no excuse for superior authority not choosing the most suitable agents for particular duties, and not removing unsuitable agents from particular duties.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 8 July 1920

I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—power.

Matthew Boulton · Speaking to Boswell of his engineering works, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1934 ed.) vol. 2, p. 459 (22 March 1776).

We do not mind even if we become dependent on foreign nations, because we know that by that very fact we make foreign nations dependent upon us.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 8 March 1905

Some see private enterprise as a predatory animal to be shot, others look on it as a cow to be milked, but a few see it as a sturdy horse pulling a wagon.

Winston Churchill · Churchill on enterprise.

Nationalization of industry is the doom of trade unionism.

Winston Churchill · Blackpool. Balance, 399, 14 October 1950

Business Quotes

There is no greater delusion than that low wages mean high profits. No labour is so dear as cheap labour, and the labour which costs nothing is the dearest of all.

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

It is always better, except in the hierarchy of military discipline, to express opinions and wishes rather than to give orders.

Exports are only the steam over the boiling water in the kettle. They are only that part of the iceberg that glitters above the surface of the ocean.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Some of them regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is—the strong and willing horse that pulls the whole cart along.

The elimination of the profit motive and of self-interest as a practical guide in the myriad transactions of daily life will restrict, paralyse and destroy British ingenuity, thrift, contrivance and good housekeeping at every stage in our life and production.

There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

But this grotesque idea of managing vast enterprises by centralized direction from London can only lead to bankruptcy and ruin.

Everyone should do a good day’s work and be accountable for some definite task; and then they do not make trouble for trouble’s sake or to cut a figure.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

How useful it is in great organisations to have a roving eye.

There is no excuse for superior authority not choosing the most suitable agents for particular duties, and not removing unsuitable agents from particular duties.

I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—power.

We do not mind even if we become dependent on foreign nations, because we know that by that very fact we make foreign nations dependent upon us.

The open market is becoming an open mockery.

I do not believe that a successful export trade can be founded upon a starved home market.

A monologue is not a decision.

Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

Some see private enterprise as a predatory animal to be shot, others look on it as a cow to be milked, but a few see it as a sturdy horse pulling a wagon.

Nationalization of industry is the doom of trade unionism.

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