Motivational Quotes

Business

Get the best people and train them well.

- Merrill, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Knudsen, William

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

David Letterman

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Armour, P. D.

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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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Warren Buffett

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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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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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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