Motivational Quotes

Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Riorio

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Knudsen, William

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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

15.

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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

18.

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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

20.

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

Bond, Alan

21.

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

22.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Watson, Thomas J.

24.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

25.

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

Basinger, Kim

26.

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

Malek, Fred

27.

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

Ovid

28.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

29.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

30.

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

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

Walton, Sam

32.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

33.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

34.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

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

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

David Letterman

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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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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

40.

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

Blair, Tony

41.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

42.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Ogilvy, David

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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