Motivational Quotes

Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Thomas, Dylan

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.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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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

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Ford, Henry

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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