Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Grove, Andrew

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.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Oscar Wilde

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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