Motivational Quotes

Business

The chief business of the American people is business.

- Calvin Coolidge

Best Quotes about Business

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ford, Henry

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

David Letterman

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

Branson, Richard

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Dickens, Charles

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

26.

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

Malek, Fred

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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

30.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Blair, Tony

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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

42.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

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

Proverb

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill