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 can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Iacocca, Lee

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

Bean, L.L.

10.

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

11.

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

Walton, Sam

12.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

16.

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Mcnealy, Scott

19.

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

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

25.

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

Ovid

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Dickens, Charles

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

31.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

34.

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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

38.

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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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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.