Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Field, Marshall

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Adolt, H. V.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

21.

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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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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

40.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

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

Aldus Manutius

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim