Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Malek, Fred

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mitchell Caplan

11.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

25.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

40.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

41.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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

43.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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 buy when other people are selling.