Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jurgen Schrempp

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Proverb

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

Morley, John

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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 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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Basinger, Kim

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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

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

Ovid

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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