Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mophatlane, Isaac

Best Quotes about Business

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

Branson, Richard

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Field, Marshall

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Warren Buffett

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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

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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 propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Ovid

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

Stuart, Edwin H.