Motivational Quotes

Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

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.

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.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ovid

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Armour, P. D.

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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 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.

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Iacocca, Lee

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Few great men could pass personal.