Motivational Quotes

Business

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Mitchell Caplan

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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.

11.

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

Revson, Charles

12.

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

Kiam, Victor

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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

14.

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

15.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

16.

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

Grove, Andrew

17.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

18.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

19.

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

Aldus Manutius

20.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

21.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Perot, H. Ross

24.

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

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Riorio

29.

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

Walton, Sam

30.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

31.

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

Malek, Fred

32.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

33.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

34.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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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

39.

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

40.

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

David Letterman

42.

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

43.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

44.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

49.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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