Motivational Quotes

Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about Business

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Warren Buffett

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

13.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Blair, Tony

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

Riorio

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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

19.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Revson, Charles

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

26.

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

George Ade

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

Hook, Harold

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony