Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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.

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

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Armour, P. D.

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Proverb

17.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose