Motivational Quotes

Business

The business of the country is business.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Business

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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.

11.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

12.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

23.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

25.

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

John Cleese

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

David Letterman

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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

31.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

32.

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

33.

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

Ford, Henry

34.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Collins, Nathan

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Branson, Richard