Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

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

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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 can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

10.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

11.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

12.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

15.

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

Proverb, American

16.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

17.

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.

18.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

21.

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

Grove, Andrew

22.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

23.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

24.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

25.

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

26.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

27.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

28.

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

Blair, Tony

29.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

30.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

31.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

32.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

34.

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

35.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Kiam, Victor

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

42.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

43.

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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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.

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Proverb, German

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.