Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Dane, Frank

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

10.

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

11.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

12.

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

13.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

16.

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

17.

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

Forbes, B. C.

18.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

20.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

21.

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

Aldus Manutius

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

23.

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

24.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

25.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

26.

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

Morley, John

28.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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

30.

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

Patterson, John H.

31.

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

32.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

33.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

35.

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

Little, Royal

37.

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

38.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

45.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hook, Harold

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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