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

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Blair, Tony

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Nevill, Dorothy

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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.

11.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

29.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

30.

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

36.

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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Morley, John

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

Galvin, Robert

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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

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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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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald