Motivational Quotes

Business

The business of the country is business.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Business

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

A hard thing about business is minding your own

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Morley, John

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Riorio

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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

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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.

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

31.

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

Proverb, American

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, 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

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Branson, Richard

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Oscar Wilde