Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Proverb, German

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Bean, L.L.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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