Keyword: Business

Commerce: A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. 

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

20% of the customers account for 80% of the turnover, 20% of the components account for 80% of the cost, and so forth.

Security isn’t. Management can’t. Sales promotions don’t. Customer assistance doesn’t. Worker’s won’t.

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business… my business.

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Business adventurous

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

(1874 – 1962) American industrialist, lawyer & diplomat

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive – right, left, and in the middle.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that’s working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he’d do it; in government, you don’t have to worry about that.

(1920 – ) U.S. Secretary of State economist, statesman & businessman

I understand small business growth… I was one.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The sumptuousnss of a company's annual report is in inverse proportion to its profitability that year.

Business: The art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

American author

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.


The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Business: Something which, if you don’t have any, you go out of.