Motivational Quotes

Business

It's the economy, stupid.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Business

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

Cathcart, Jim

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Armour, P. D.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

10.

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

Thomas, Dylan

11.

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

Little, Royal

12.

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

13.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

14.

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

Proverb

15.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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.

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

21.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

22.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

24.

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

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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 great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

27.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

28.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

29.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

30.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

31.

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

Warren Buffett

32.

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

33.

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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

36.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

37.

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

Walton, Sam

38.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

39.

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

Bond, Alan

40.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

41.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

43.

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

Iacocca, Lee

44.

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

45.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

46.

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

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

David Letterman