Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Kashoggi, Adnan

Best Quotes about Business

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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.

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

Warren Buffett

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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.

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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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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Field, Marshall

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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