Motivational Quotes

Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Business

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

21.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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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

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

Aldus Manutius

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

28.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

29.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Rena, Peter

38.

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.

39.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio