Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riorio

Best Quotes about Business

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

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

Proverb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Warren Buffett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

13.

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 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

15.

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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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

17.

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

18.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

19.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

20.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

21.

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

Ford, Henry

22.

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

23.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

24.

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 consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

26.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

27.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

28.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

29.

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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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

32.

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

33.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

34.

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

Patterson, John H.

35.

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

36.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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.

40.

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

Riorio

41.

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

42.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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