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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb

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

Malek, Fred

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Grove, Andrew

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Warren Buffett

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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 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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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

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

Brown, Derby

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Branson, Richard

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.