Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Grove, Andrew

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Riorio

10.

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

11.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

12.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

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

Bond, Alan

14.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

15.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

18.

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

19.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

25.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

26.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

29.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

30.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Hawken, Paul

32.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

33.

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.

34.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

35.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

36.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

37.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

38.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

39.

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

40.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

41.

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

Morley, John

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hook, Harold

44.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Blair, Tony

48.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

49.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.