Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Cathcart, Jim

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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