Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Woolworth, F. W.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Warren Buffett

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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 hard thing about business is minding your own

25.

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

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

Dane, Frank

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Patterson, John H.

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

George Ade

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