Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bond, Alan

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

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

10.

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

Rena, Peter

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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

12.

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

Knudsen, William

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

19.

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

Cathcart, Jim

20.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Thomas, Dylan

30.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

32.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

33.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Hawken, Paul

35.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Forbes, B. C.

41.

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

Proverb, German

42.

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

43.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

44.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

45.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

46.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.