Motivational Quotes

Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Aldus Manutius

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

41.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

42.

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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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