Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Thomas, Dylan

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, German

10.

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

11.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Malek, Fred

15.

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

Riorio

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

George Ade

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

David Letterman

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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 can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Onassis, Aristotle

33.

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

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Walton, Sam

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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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Morley, John

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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

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Mitchell Caplan