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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Dane, Frank

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

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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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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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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

David Letterman

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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.

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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 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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Ovid

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bean, L.L.