Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

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

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

10.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

11.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

12.

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

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

16.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

19.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

21.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Field, Marshall

28.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

29.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

31.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

34.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

35.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

39.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

41.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

48.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Wilson, Charles E.