Motivational Quotes

Business

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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

Basinger, Kim

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

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

David Letterman

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

10.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Tara Hunt

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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

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb

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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Iacocca, Lee

33.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Knudsen, William

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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.