Motivational Quotes

Business

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

- Burns, M. Anthony

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

10.

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

Ford, Henry

11.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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.

13.

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

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

15.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

19.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

20.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

25.

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.

26.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

27.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

28.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

29.

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

30.

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

Blair, Tony

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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

Ovid

34.

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

Bond, Alan

35.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

37.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

38.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

Little, Royal

40.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

41.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

42.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

44.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Tara Hunt

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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It's the economy, stupid.