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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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.

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.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

10.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

11.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

12.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

19.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

24.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Hawken, Paul

28.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

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

Blair, Tony

34.

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

35.

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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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

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Proverb, German

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

Wang, An

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Manzi, Jim