Motivational Quotes

Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

David Letterman

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Onassis, Aristotle

14.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

15.

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

Proverb

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

21.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

24.

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

25.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Armour, P. D.

27.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

28.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven 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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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

34.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

38.

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

Hook, Harold

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

40.

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

Blair, Tony

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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 we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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