Motivational Quotes

Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Manzi, Jim

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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

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

Proverb

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Branson, Richard

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo