Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Blair, Tony

Best Quotes about Business

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Revson, Charles

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Branson, Richard

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

10.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

12.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

13.

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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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

18.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

21.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

22.

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

Brown, Derby

23.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

24.

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

Ogilvy, David

25.

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

26.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

27.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

31.

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

Cathcart, Jim

32.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Dane, Frank

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

Patterson, John H.

38.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

40.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

42.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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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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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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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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.

49.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

50.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond