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

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

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.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Manzi, Jim

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

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Walton, Sam

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

Malek, Fred

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Proverb, American

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur