Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kiam, Victor

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

11.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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 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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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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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

28.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

35.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

George Ade

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola