Motivational Quotes

Business

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

- Beene, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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.

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

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

Ford, Henry

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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 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.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Manzi, Jim

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Ovid

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

Tara Hunt

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

27.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

32.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

34.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

Walton, Sam

43.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

44.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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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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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