8 # Business Quotes

# A New York lawyer tells of a conversation that occurred in his presence between a bank president and his son who was about to leave for the West, there to engage in business on his own account.
"Son," said the father, "on this, the threshold of your business life, I desire to impress one thought upon your mind: Honesty, ever and always, is the policy that is best."
"Yes, father," said the young man.
"And, by the way," added the gray-beard, "I would advise you to read up a little on corporation law. It will amaze you to discover how many things you can do in a business way and still be honest."

# "Dod-burn the luck!" snarled old Gideon Cronk, glaring at the clock. "That confounded bank is closed! That's a thunderin' pretty howdy-do!"
"Well, you've set round the stove here foolin' with the checkerboard all the afternoon and let the bank close on you," returned the landlord of the tavern, "What you kickin' about anyhow?"
"I demand that a public institution shall accommodate its patrons; that's what!"
"Can't you cash your check in the mornin'?"
"I ain't got no check. But if I had one I'd want to cash it when I wanted to, wouldn't I? Well, it's the principle of the thing I'm talkin' about!"

7 # Business Quotes

# How Business Men Keep Their Spirits Up
"Cancel my order at once," came the telegram to the factory. The owner perpetrated the only new joke in the millennium. His telegram in reply read: "Your order cannot be cancelled at once. You must take your turn."

# CUSTOMER—"Gee, this is a rotten cigar!"
SHOPKEEPER—"Well, don't complain. You've only got one of them—I've got ten thousand of the darn things."—Life.

# EMPLOYEE—"I don't like your methods of doing business, Mr. Grafton. I resign."
"PRACTICAL" BUSINESS MAN (sneeringly)—"You're a holier-than-thou guy, eh?"
EMPLOYEE—"No; merely a square peg in a crooked hole."—Puck.

6 # Business Quotes

# The firm of Hansen & Fransen was started in wartime and did very well for a couple of years. But last year things were on the down grade, and the other day, when the two partners had finished making up their none-too-good record for the year, Hansen said: "This would make anyone thoughtful. Now that the good times are over, how about a little honest business?"
"No, thanks," said Fransen. "I never indulge in experiments."

# "There are no more enterprising young men. Why, I remember when it was a common thing for a young man to start out as a clerk and in a few years own the business."
"Yes, but cash-registers have been invented since."

# The junior partner was harried.
"I shall have to get another typist," he lamented. "Miss Take is continually interrupting my dictation to ask how to spell a word."
"Dear, dear!" said the senior partner. "That seems a great waste of time."
"It's not that I mind," responded the other. "But it's so bad for discipline to keep on saying, 'I don't know'!"

5 # Business Quotes

# Johnny was at the grocery store.

"I hear you have a little sister at your house," said the grocer.
"Yes, sir," said Johnny.
"Do you like that?" was queried.
"I wish it was a boy," said Johnny, "so I could play marbles with him, and baseball."
"Well," said the storekeeper, "why don't you exchange your little sister for a boy?"
Johnny reflected for a minute; then he said sorrowfully:
"We can't now; it's too late. We've used her four weeks."

# A Priest in Ireland went to Rome, and a number of his parishioners asked him to buy things for them. Some gave him the cash; others did not. When he returned, he brought the articles for those who paid for them in advance. When the others complained, he said, with a wink:

"While I was at sea I got out all the commissions and spread them on the deck. On the papers of those who had given me the coin I put the money. The others had nothing to weight them down. A squall of wind came up. It blew all the unweighted papers into the sea! So the ones who gave me the money got what they asked me to get. The others must ask Father Neptune for theirs."

# A New York lawyer had in his employ an office-boy who was addicted to the bad habit of telling in other offices what happened in that of his employer. The lawyer found it necessary to discharge him, but, thinking to restrain him from a similar fault in the future, he counseled the boy, on his departure, in this wise:

"Tommy, you must never hear anything that is said in the office. Do what you are told, but turn a deaf ear to conversation that does not include you."

This struck the boss as such a happy inspiration that, to the end that his stenographer might learn the same lesson, he turned to her and said:

"Miss Jones, did you hear what I said to Tommy?"

"No, sir," she returned, promptly.

4 # Business Quotes

# That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.—Izaak Walton.
# 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.—Bovee.
# Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.—Duke of Wellington.
# Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.—Swift.
# It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—I should like to be also something of a man.—Theodore Parker.
# Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.—Tacitus.
# The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour—never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other.—Sismondi.
# Few people do business well who do nothing else.—Chesterfield.

3 # Business Quotes

# There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they haven't any mind, the other that they haven't any business.
# "I'm a very busy man, sir. What is your proposition?"
"I want to make you rich."
"Just so. Leave your recipe with me and I'll look it over later. Just now I'm engaged in closing up a little deal by which I expect to make $3.50 in real money."
# A teacher asked those pupils who wanted to go to heaven to raise their hands. All except little Ikey's hands went up. The teacher asked him if he didn't want to go to heaven and Ikey replied that he had heard his father tell his mother that 'Business had all gone to hell' and Ikey wanted to go where the business had gone.
# "There is one respect in which a live business man isn't like a tree."
"What is that?"
"If he remains rooted to the spot, he can't branch out."
# First Merchant (as reported in the New York "Trade Record")—"How's business?"
Second Merchant—"Picking up a little. One of our men got a $5,000 order yesterday."
"Go away. I don't believe that."
"Honest he did—I'll show you the cancellation."
# A business man advertised for an office boy. The next morning there were some fifty boys in line. He was about to begin examining the applicants when his stenographer handed him a card on which was scribbled:
"Don't do anything until you see me. I'm the last kid in line, but I'm telling you I'm there with the goods."
# Unfortunate Pedestrian (who has been knocked down and dazed)—"Where am I? Where am I?" Enterprising Hawker—"'Ere y'are, sir—map of London, one penny."—Punch.

2 # Business Quotes

# Your role in achieving your goal must be giving your all. Involve yourself whole: with your heart, your mind and your soul. -Victoria Holtz
# Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.- Phil C. McGraw
# The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.- Geoffrey Gaberino
# Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
# Feel the power of team work; If you know that a drop of water easily gets dried And a pool of water hardly gets dried.- Brian Hu
# The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.— Katharine Whitehorn
# A thing is worth whatever the buyer will pay for it.— Publilius Syrus
# The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.— Ginger Rogers
# Men too involved in details usually become unable to deal with great matters.— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
# The key to everything is patience.You get the chicken by hatching the egg--not by smashing it.— Ellen Glasgow
# Well done is better than well said.— Benjamin Franklin
# There are only two ways of getting on in the world; by one’s own industry, or by the weaknesses of others.— Jean de La Bruyere

1 # Business Quotes

# An expert is a man who makes his mistakes quietly.-saying
# Before salespeople can sell something to others, they must first sell it to themselves.-saying
# A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.-saying
# It takes less to keep an old customer satisfied than to get a new customer interested.-saying
# Advertising moves the goods—if it’s good advertising. Bad advertising doesn’t move the goods because it doesn’t move the buyers.-saying
# One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.— Will Rogers
# Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.— Stephen Leacock
# No warning can save a people determined to grow suddenly rich.— Lord Overstone
# If you don’t sell, it’s not the product that’s wrong, it’s you.— Estée Lauder
# When you stop talking, you’ve lost your customer.— Estée Lauder
# Everyone lives by selling something.— Robert Louis Stevenson
# Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.— Samuel Butler