Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Ogilvy, David

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

10.

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

11.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Oscar Wilde

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Brown, Derby

24.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

25.

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

Aldus Manutius

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ovid

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

33.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Shakespeare, William

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

41.

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

42.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bond, Alan