Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hale, Sir Matthew

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

John Cleese

10.

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

Proverb, German

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

14.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

15.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

19.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

21.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

22.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

23.

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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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

25.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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

29.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

30.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

31.

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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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

33.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

34.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

35.

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

Ford, Henry

36.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

39.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Aldus Manutius

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

42.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

43.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

44.

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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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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

49.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.