Keyword: Business

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

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

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

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

I understand small business growth… I was one.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

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

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

American author

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

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

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

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

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

(1932 – ) American political satirist & comedian

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

Business adventurous

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

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

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.