Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

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.

11.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

12.

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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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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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.

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

17.

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

Blair, Tony

18.

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

Kiam, Victor

19.

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

Revson, Charles

20.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

21.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

24.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

25.

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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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

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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.

28.

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

Walton, Sam

29.

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

30.

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

Branson, Richard

31.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Coke, Sir Edward

40.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

41.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

42.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

45.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

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

Little, Royal

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