Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

David Letterman

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ford, Henry

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

10.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Olsen, Kenneth

24.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Warren Buffett

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

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

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

39.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Blair, Tony

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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

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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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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.