Motivational Quotes

Business

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

David Letterman

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Oscar Wilde

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Cathcart, Jim

11.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

12.

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

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

Aldus Manutius

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Patterson, John H.

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Tara Hunt

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George Ade

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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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

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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