Motivational Quotes

Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

George Ade

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Aldus Manutius

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

10.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

11.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

12.

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

Basinger, Kim

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

15.

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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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

17.

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

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Proverb, German

19.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dickens, Charles

22.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

25.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

26.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

31.

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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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.

34.

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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

37.

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

Revson, Charles

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

40.

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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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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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

43.

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

Forbes, B. C.

44.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

45.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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