Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

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

Morley, John

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

Shakespeare, William

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Malek, Fred

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Proverb

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

Buffett, Warren

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Brown, Derby

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry