Motivational Quotes

Business

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warren Buffett

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Rena, Peter

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

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

10.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

11.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

David Letterman

13.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

14.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

15.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

16.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

17.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

18.

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

Forbes, B. C.

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

22.

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

23.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

24.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

25.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

26.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

29.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

33.

Onassis, Aristotle

34.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

35.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

36.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

37.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Coke, Sir Edward

39.

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

40.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

41.

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

Basinger, Kim

42.

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

43.

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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

45.

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

Jacobs, Randall

46.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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

48.

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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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William