Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Morley, John

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

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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 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 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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Proverb, German

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Wang, An

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

34.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee