Motivational Quotes

Business

Few great men could pass personal.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Walton, Sam

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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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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 simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

George Ade

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Warren Buffett

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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 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

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Ford, Henry

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David