Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jurgen Schrempp

Best Quotes about Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Brown, Derby

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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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 has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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.

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

Branson, Richard

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Warren Buffett

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Ovid

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

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Wilson, Charles E.