Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Business

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

George Ade

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Hook, Harold

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

David Letterman

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Proverb, American

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

Basinger, Kim

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Field, Marshall

45.

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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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Welch, John