Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Knudsen, William

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

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

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

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

Hook, Harold

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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 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

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Adolt, H. V.

23.

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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Morley, John

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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

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Warren Buffett

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dane, Frank

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ogilvy, David

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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.