Motivational Quotes

Business

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

- Nevill, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Business

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Walton, Sam

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.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Dane, Frank

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

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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hook, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

George Ade

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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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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