Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, German

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Forbes, B. C.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Morley, John

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Brown, Derby

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

George Ade

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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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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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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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dickens, Charles

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore