Motivational Quotes

Business

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

- Patterson, John H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Branson, Richard

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Thomas, Dylan

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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

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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 propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Geneen, Harold S.

49.

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

Walton, Sam