Motivational Quotes

Business

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Morley, John

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Blair, Tony

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

Hook, Harold

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey 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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Patterson, John H.

15.

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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

19.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

20.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

21.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

22.

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

Barzan, Gerald

24.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

25.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

27.

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

28.

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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

30.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

32.

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

Ford, Henry

33.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

34.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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 buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

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

Riorio

41.

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

George Ade

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

43.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 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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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.

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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