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

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Little, Royal

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Ford, Henry

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Morley, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Ogilvy, David

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dane, Frank

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.