Motivational Quotes

Business

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Morley, John

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

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

Kiam, Victor

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Ovid

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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.

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