Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

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

Ovid

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

Bond, Alan

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Thomas, Dylan

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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.

19.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

20.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter 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

25.

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

George Ade

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

30.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy