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

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.

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

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

18.

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

Hawken, Paul

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

25.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

40.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.