Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cardenas, Ruben

Best Quotes about Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Revson, Charles

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.

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.

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Hook, Harold

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

10.

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

11.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

12.

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

Armour, P. D.

13.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

14.

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

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

Kiam, Victor

16.

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

Ford, Henry

17.

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

Malek, Fred

18.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

21.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

34.

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

35.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

36.

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

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.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Olsen, Kenneth

40.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

41.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

42.

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

David Letterman

43.

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

Manzi, Jim

44.

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

45.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

46.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Forbes, B. C.

48.

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

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)