Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ford, Henry

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

David Letterman

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.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb

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

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

10.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

11.

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

12.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

13.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

15.

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

Oscar Wilde

16.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

20.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

21.

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

Thomas, Dylan

22.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

28.

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

29.

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

Barzan, Gerald

30.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Branson, Richard

32.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

34.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

36.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Olsen, Kenneth

38.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

39.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

40.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

41.

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

Walton, Sam

42.

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

George Ade

43.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

44.

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

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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.