Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Proverb

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Forbes, B. C.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Warren Buffett

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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

11.

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

Bond, Alan

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Morley, John

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Hook, Harold

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

30.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

33.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell