Motivational Quotes

Business

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rena, Peter

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

11.

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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

David Letterman

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

30.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

31.

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

32.

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

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

34.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Branson, Richard

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Iacocca, Lee

43.

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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

John Cleese

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bond, Alan

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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