Business Money Quotes
This page contains a collection of quotes related to business and making money. The quotes are attributed to various business leaders, politicians, authors and others. Many of the quotes discuss balancing profit with other goals like ethics, community impact, and customer satisfaction.
Some key themes are that profit alone should not be the sole purpose of business, and that corporate social responsibility and treating employees/customers well are also important for long-term success. In summary, the page shares wisdom on running businesses effectively and responsibly from the perspectives of different influential figures.
“Money is not the motivating force. It’s nice to have money, but I don’t live high. What I enjoy is running the business” — Rupert Murdoch
“American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism” — Herbert Hoover
“Just as people cannot live without eating, so a business cannot live without profits. But most people don’t live to eat, and neither must businesses live just to make profits” — John Mackey
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art” — Andy Warhol
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists” — Logan Pearsall Smith
“I wouldn’t be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world” — Gennaro Angiulo
“The blind pursuit of profit at all costs is untenable. It is essential that we make money the right way. After all, if communities suffer as a result of a company’s actions, those returns are not sustainable” — Indra K. Nooyi
“You just can’t keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It’s got to be a business” — Don Bluth
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business” — Henry Ford
“A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others” — Larry Ellison
“To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit” — Marc Benioff
“Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money” — Peter Drucker
“Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life” — Samuel Johnson
“You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will” — Warren Buffett
“Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence” — Max Amsterdam
“Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality” — Dee Hock
“Thought, not money, is the real business capital” — Harvey S. Firestone
“A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent” — Irwin Schiff
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“People who want to make a million borrow a million first” — Sophie Kinsella
“We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth” — Jim Rohn
“Corporations don’t create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they’re doing now, the vast majority of Americans don’t have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell — which means businesses stop creating enough jobs” — Robert Reich
“There’s such an emphasis on making money that we’ve really taken the humanity out of business” — Paul Tudor Jones
“Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits” — Bernie Sanders
Pavel Constantin, Romania
“To the average company, a customer is a human wallet from which the company attempts to extract as much money as possible” — Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
“A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about
1. What its product is.
2. Who its customers are.
3. How to make money”
— Dave McClure
“My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It’s been very profitable and entertaining for me” — Mark Cuban
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“An organization’s culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit” — Punit Renjen
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later” — Harold Green
“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market” — Robert Frost
“Never go into business purely to make money. If that’s the motive you’re better off doing nothing — Richard Branson
“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money” — Thomas Fuller
If you respect people, and you pay them well, they will do anything for you” — Marcus Lemonis
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does” — Jane Austen
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