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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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

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

David Letterman

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Malek, Fred

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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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

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Wang, An

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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 City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul