Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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

Proverb

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

10.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

11.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

12.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

14.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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.

17.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Aldus Manutius

19.

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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

21.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Forbes, B. C.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

28.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

30.

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

Hook, Harold

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

33.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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 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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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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

38.

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

Nevill, Dorothy

42.

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

43.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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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

46.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby