Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Thomas, Dylan

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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.

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

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

10.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Ogilvy, David

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

14.

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

Oscar Wilde

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

16.

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

Proverb, German

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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

18.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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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 work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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 selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

30.

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

Dane, Frank

31.

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

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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

33.

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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

36.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

40.

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.

41.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

43.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

45.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter