Motivational Quotes

Business

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

- Bamford, Joe

Best Quotes about Business

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Ford, Henry

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

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.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Proverb, German

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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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.

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Patterson, John H.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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 business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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 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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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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

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

Ovid

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Watson, Thomas J.