Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Basinger, Kim

Best Quotes about Business

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

10.

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

11.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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.

16.

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

Ovid

17.

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

18.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

19.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

20.

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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

22.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

23.

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

24.

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

Patterson, John H.

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

30.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

31.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

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.

34.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

35.

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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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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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

39.

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

40.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

41.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

42.

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

Riorio

43.

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

44.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

45.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

46.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

47.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

48.

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

49.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

50.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry