Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

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

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.

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

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Bond, Alan

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Field, Marshall

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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

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

Armour, P. D.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

David Letterman