Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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.

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

Ovid

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

10.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

19.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Warren Buffett

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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