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

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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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

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Dane, Frank