The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

Time is the measure of business.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

The business of America is business.