Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

George Ade

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

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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

11.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

12.

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

Buffett, Warren

13.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

15.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

16.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

Bond, Alan

19.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

21.

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

22.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

24.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Ford, Henry

28.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

29.

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

Cathcart, Jim

30.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

31.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

33.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

34.

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

35.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

36.

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

37.

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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

39.

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

Malek, Fred

40.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

41.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

46.

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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

49.

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.

50.

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