Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Buffett, Warren

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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.

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

Proverb, American

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Manzi, Jim

11.

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

12.

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

Malek, Fred

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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.

16.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

18.

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

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

John Cleese

20.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

21.

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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

23.

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Morley, John

26.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

28.

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

29.

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

30.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

31.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

35.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

36.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

37.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

38.

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

40.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

41.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

42.

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

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

47.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.