Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Aldus Manutius

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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

Morley, John

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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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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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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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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

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Kiam, Victor

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, German

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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

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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

Bond, Alan

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Dane, Frank

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge