Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Business

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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

18.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bond, Alan

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

27.

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

Riorio

28.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

29.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

30.

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

George Ade

31.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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.

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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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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

35.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

40.

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

42.

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

Proverb, German

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

Warren Buffett

45.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.