Motivational Quotes

Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

- Gilbey, Walter

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Aldus Manutius

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Revson, Charles

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

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

35.

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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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Rena, Peter

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.