Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mitchell Caplan

Best Quotes about Business

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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.

10.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

11.

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.

12.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

18.

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 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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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

21.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

22.

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

23.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

24.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

25.

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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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

27.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

28.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

29.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

31.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

32.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

33.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

38.

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

George Ade

39.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

41.

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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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

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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

44.

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

Proverb, German

45.

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

Ovid

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.