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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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.

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Rena, Peter

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

Basinger, Kim

10.

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

Armour, P. D.

11.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

12.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

14.

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

15.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

16.

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

Manzi, Jim

17.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

18.

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

Oscar Wilde

19.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

21.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

27.

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

30.

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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

32.

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.

33.

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

Galvin, Robert

34.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

35.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

37.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

38.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

39.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

42.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

43.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

45.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

48.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.