Motivational Quotes

Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about Business

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Malek, Fred

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

11.

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

David Letterman

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Field, Marshall

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Oscar Wilde

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar