Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Little, Royal

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

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Proverb, German

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

Ogilvy, David

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Ovid

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bond, Alan

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Revson, Charles

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Aldus Manutius

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Thomas, Dylan

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