Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

Wang, An

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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

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

George Ade

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

Warren Buffett

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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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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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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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Hook, Harold

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

Morley, John

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

David Letterman

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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.