Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Business

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Shakespeare, William

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

George Ade

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Malek, Fred

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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 do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Hawken, Paul

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