Page 40 - The Big Book of Business Quotations: Over 1,400 of the Smartest Things Ever Said about Making Money - PDFDrive.com

In business, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

—Chester L. Karrass, negotiations expert and author

One of the most-common misconceptions about our private enterprise system is
that large companies, such as the Fortune 500, are integral to the process of job
creation in this country. The truth is quite the opposite.

—Michael Milken, former financier (from mikemilken.com)

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people.
They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and
aggressiveness.

—Daniel Patrick Moynihan, politician and sociologist

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on
friendship.

—John D. Rockefeller, industrialist, cofounder of Standard Oil Co., and philanthropist There are
bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations.
That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

—James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox (from interview in The Guardian, June 6, 2009)

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our