Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

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

Blair, Tony

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Proverb

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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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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

George Ade

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

23.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

24.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

25.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

26.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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.

28.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

31.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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

35.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

36.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Malek, Fred

39.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Business is a combination of war and sport.