There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
~ Joseph Addison

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
~ H. V. Adolt

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
~ Fred A. Allen

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
~ P. D. Armour

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.
~ Joe Bamford

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.
~ Bernard M. Baruch

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
~ Bernard M. Baruch

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be
~ Gerald Barzan

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
~ Kim Basinger

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
~ Charles Baudelaire

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
~ Jean Baudrillard

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.
~ L.L. Bean

Business is more exciting than any game.
~ Lord Beaverbrook

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
~ Geoffrey Beene

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
~ William Bernbach

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
~ Ambrose Bierce

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
~ Josh Billings

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
~ Tony Blair

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
~ William Blake