Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hook, Harold

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Ford, Henry

10.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

13.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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

18.

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

19.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

20.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

25.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Dane, Frank

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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

28.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

32.

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

Walton, Sam

33.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

34.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

36.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

37.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

38.

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

39.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Galvin, Robert

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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.