Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Riorio

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

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

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

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Brown, Derby

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Armour, P. D.

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin