Motivational Quotes

Business

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

Warhol, Andy

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An