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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Little, Royal

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Watson, Thomas J.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren Buffett

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Ford, Henry

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

Walton, Sam

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

Brown, Derby

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac