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

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

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

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

Blair, Tony

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Hook, Harold

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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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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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

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

Warren Buffett

21.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Aldus Manutius

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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

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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

27.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

30.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

31.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

32.

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

Proverb

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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.

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

36.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Buffett, Warren

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

David Letterman

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Walton, Sam

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.