Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

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

Revson, Charles

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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Walton, Sam

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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 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 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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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

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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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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.

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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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'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.