Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

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

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Dane, Frank

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

Basinger, Kim

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

David Letterman

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Dickens, Charles

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.