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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Walton, Sam

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

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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 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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Dane, Frank

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Malek, Fred

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Manzi, Jim

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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

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