Motivational Quotes

Business

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Buffett, Warren

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Bean, L.L.

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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

11.

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

Barzan, Gerald

12.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Bamford, Joe

18.

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

Forbes, B. C.

19.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

21.

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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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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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

25.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Riorio

27.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

28.

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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

30.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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

32.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

35.

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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

37.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Blair, Tony

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin