Motivational Quotes

Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Watson, Thomas J.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Patterson, John H.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

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

Ovid

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

17.

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

Perot, H. Ross

18.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

19.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

20.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

John Cleese

24.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

25.

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

Walton, Sam

26.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

27.

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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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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Thomas, Dylan

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

33.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

34.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

37.

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

Proverb, German

38.

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

Welch, John

40.

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

Proverb

41.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

42.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

43.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Basinger, Kim

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles